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

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)

ca. 1700–1720

Dating
Approximate date range
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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