Witches' Sabbath, within a nocturnal landscape, a necromancer seated at top center wearing a robe and cap inscribed with Kabbalist symbols, below him to left a horse with the head of a beast, a ring of nude dancers to right, a robed with the head of a pig to left, various witches, sorcerers, strange animals, and monsters on the ground to left in the foreground, from 'The Sabbaths' (Les Sabbats)
Claude Gillot
ca. 1700–1720
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. (24.4 x 33.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.375
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMale NudesFemale NudesDancingMonstersWitches
About the Artist
Claude Gillot · 1673–1722
Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History