Heksensabbat, Jacques Aliamet, after David Teniers, 1755

Title(s)

Heksensabbat
Départ pour le Sabbat (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1998-694

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 2
• Nagler/Meyer 54
• IFF 18e siècle 26
• Delignières 26
• Collectie Rijksmuseum-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jacques Aliamet (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: David Teniers (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jacques Aliamet (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
after painting by: Netherlands
publisher: Paris

Dating

1755

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 380 mm × width 277 mm

What

• worshipping the devil (often in the form of a he-goat) during witches' sabbath
• old woman
• devil(s) and demons
• open hearth, fire-place

Credit line

• Gift of G.J. Stoel, Vledder

Acquisition

gift 1998

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français, dl. 1, p. 33, cat.nr. 26
• Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jacques Aliamet d'Abbeville, Émile Delignières, p. 84, cat.nr. 26
• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Julius Meyer, dl. 1, p. 310, cat.nr. 54
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, Ch Leblanc, dl. 1, p. 20, cat.nr. 2