Gillot (Claude, 1673-1722). Witches' Sabbath

Gillot (Claude, 1673-1722). Witches' Sabbath, etching on laid paper, with indistinct watermark, pale overall toning, close-trimmed to plate margins, old paper restrengthening to verso of upper margin, sheet size 250 x 345 mm (97/8 x 131/2 ins)

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Bernard Populus, Claude Gillot, Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé (1930), 10.

A Witches' sabbath at night, with a necromancer seated on a rock holding an open book, with an owl above, while naked male and female figures dance in a circle to the right to a tune played by a goat violinist, and various witches, sorcerers, strange animals and monsters to the left, from the series entitled Les Sabbats (The Sabbaths). Gillot is best known as the inventor of the fête champêtre genre, and was the teacher of Antoine Watteau.