
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)
ca. 1700–1720
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. (24.4 x 33.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.375
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Claude Gillot. 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; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
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).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.
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