The Hostages is an 1896 oil on canvas painting created by French painter and sculptor Jean-Paul Laurens, the last in a series of historical works by him.

He does not give a specific historical setting, although he evokes the Princes in the Tower and Richard III of England.

It is now collected in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

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