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[edit]Claes Jacobsz van der Heck: Witches' sabbath
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Witches' Sabbath  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
landscape painting |
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| Description |
Fantasy landscape with numerous monsters against a backdrop of classical buildings and ruins. Devils and witches fly through the air. To the right a fountain and in the middle an obelisk and a statue of a fat devil sitting on a globe. To the left an open ruin where a party downstairs is enjoying themselves around a table, while above them monsters have a huge cauldron on the fire. |
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| Date | 1636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on oak wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SK-A-2373 (Rijksmuseum) |
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| Place of creation | Alkmaar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
by 15 December 1908: Evert Moll Sr., Rijswijk from 15 December 1908 until 16 December 1908: sale of the collection of Tableaux anciens provenant des collections Evert Moll Sr. à Ryswyk, mr. W.M. Helmich à Zwolle, d'une ancienne famille patricienne à Amsterdam et de quelques autres provenances at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, lot no. 49 (as Diablerie, height: 57.5 cm (22.6 in); width: 98 cm (38.5 in)) by January 1909: Ernst Heldring (1871-1954), Amsterdam January 1909: given to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Inventory number SK-A-2373, by Ernst Heldring, Amsterdam from 1978 until 1994: lent to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague 2000: lent to the Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar |
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| Exhibition history |
De heksen van Bruegel. Hekserijvoorstellingen in de Lage Landen tussen 1450 en 1700, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 19 September 2015–31 January 2016, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, 25 February 2016–26 June 2016, ISBN 9076297592, p. 101, ill. 83. |
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Signature and date center left: C. Heck / fecit / 1636
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Th.P.H. Wortel (1943) ‘“Nicales van de Heck, van 't Gheslacht van Marten Hemskerck”’, Oud Holland, vol. 60. p. 44-59, 128-143. Pieter J. J. van Thiel et al. (1976) All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, ISBN 90-6179-010-7, p. 262, cat. no. A 2373, as Allegory on the vices, height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in).Jonathan Bikker (ed.; 2007) Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Volume I - Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, Nieuw Amsterdam, [New Haven]: Yale University Press, ISBN 9789086890279, p. 185-186, cat. no. 115, as Witches’ sabbath, height: 56.8 cm (22.3 in); width: 97.9 cm (38.5 in). Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Witches' Sabbath, height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in). |
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| Source/Photographer | www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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