Departure for the Sabbath
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
20.9 x 28.9 cm.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993
Accession Number
1993.1080
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Departure for the Sabbath" a captivating etching (20.9 x 28.9 cm) attributed to David Teniers the, with possible involvement from Baron Dominique Vivant Denon housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints. This print evokes the eerie world of witchcraft, featuring women—likely witches—alongside skulls, symbols of death and the supernatural. The title suggests a nocturnal gathering, a common motif in European art depicting the witches' sabbath, figures depart for mystical rites under the cover of darkness. David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), a Flemish Baroque master, excel...
About the Artist
David Teniers the Younger|baron Dominique Vivant Denon · 1610–1690
David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands, renowned for his peasant genre scenes, elegant gallery paintings, and his role as court painter and curator. Born in Antwerp, he trained under his father, David Teniers the Elder, and was influenced by Adriaen Brouwer's peasant subje...