Scene of Witchcraft and Devil Worship
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on brown laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
24.8 × 33.8 cm (9 13/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81940
About the Artist
David Teniers the Younger · 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...