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Claes Jacobsz van der Heck: Witches' sabbath  wikidata:Q17328656 reasonator:Q17328656
Artist
Claes Jacobsz van der Heck  (1575/1581–1652)  wikidata:Q797798
 
Alternative names
Claes van der Heck (I), Nicolaes Jacobsz. van der Heck, Nicolaes van der Heck
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death between 1575 and 1581
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1581-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 19 December 1652 (buried)
Location of birth/death Alkmaar Alkmaar
Work period from 1593 until 1652
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1593-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Alkmaar (1613-1652)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q797798
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Witches' Sabbath Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"Witches' Sabbath"
label QS:Lnl,"Heksensabbat"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
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.
Date 1636
date QS:P571,+1636-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on oak wood
Dimensions height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,57U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,97U174728
institution QS:P195,Q4623539
Accession number
SK-A-2373 (Rijksmuseum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Alkmaar
Object history by 15 December 1908
date QS:P,+1908-12-15T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1908-12-15T00:00:00Z/11
: Evert Moll Sr., Rijswijk
from 15 December 1908 until 16 December 1908
date QS:P,+1908-12-00T00:00:00Z/10,P580,+1908-12-15T00:00:00Z/11,P582,+1908-12-16T00:00:00Z/11
: 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)
dimensions QS:P2048,57.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,98U174728
)
by January 1909
date QS:P,+1909-01-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1909-01-00T00:00:00Z/10
: Ernst Heldring (1871-1954), Amsterdam

January 1909: given to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Inventory number SK-A-2373, by Ernst Heldring, Amsterdam

from 1953
date QS:P,+1953-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1953-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, today Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Netherlands
from 1978 until 1994
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1978-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: lent to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague
2000: lent to the Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar
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.
Inscriptions

Signature and date center left:

C. Heck / fecit / 1636
On the pedestal of the obelisk
References

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)
dimensions QS:P2048,57U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,97U174728
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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)
dimensions QS:P2048,56.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,97.9U174728
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Witches' Sabbath, height: 57 cm (22.4 in); width: 97 cm (38.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,57U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,97U174728
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