Witches' Sabbath
1798 · Oil on canvas · Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
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About this work
- Artist
- Francisco Goya (1746–1828)
- Year
- 1798
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 43 × 30 cm
- Collection
- Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
- Movement
- Romanticism
Under a crescent moon a great he-goat, crowned with vine leaves, presides over a circle of witches who offer him emaciated infants; one holds up a healthy baby, another a skeletal one, and tiny bats cross the night sky. The small canvas is one of six scenes of witchcraft that Goya painted in 1798 for the country house of the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, enlightened patrons who collected such images as satires of popular superstition and of the Inquisition that fed on it. The flat, bright moonlight, the toy-like goat and the half-comic faces make it a very different picture from the black painting of the same subject he would make on the walls of his own house twenty years later. It belongs to the Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid, with its companion The Spell.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A horned goat enthroned among witches under a crescent moon, in ochre, white and night blue, for a study, library or hallway at 24×36 in black. Deep green, charcoal or mustard walls suit the moonlight; it pairs with The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Romanticism painting
- Era
- 18th century (1798)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
