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Eye Candy for Today: Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat, Pre-Raphaelite oil painting by William Holman Hunt
The Scapegoat, Pre-Raphaelite oil painting by William Holman Hunt (details)

The Scapegoat, Willaim Holman Hunt; oil on canvas; roughly 34 x 55 inches (86 x 140cm). Link is to image file on Wikipedia, original is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool.

From the Bible: book of Leviticus, which is where we get the general concept as we use the term today.

For more background on this painting, see this post on Wikipedia.