Witches Going to the Sabbath by Falero: The Painting No Museum Owns (1878)
Naked witches spiral through moonlit air. A goat, a bat, a bird’s skeleton, a salamander slithering at the edge: Luis Ricardo Falero’s Witches Going to Their Sabbath (1878) is less a single scene than a hypnotic circuit. Your eye never parks. Victorian Britain stared anyway. Today the picture is one of the most widely reproduced images of witchcraft in art, although it hangs in no public museum. The picture below is our vintage poster version of the painting; the original is shown further down. Vintage art poster by Sapiens Verbum after Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches Going to Their Sabbath . Available from the Sapiens Verbum print shop. 🖼️ Get the vintage poster → License this image → Quick facts Artist: Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896) Date: 1878 (signed and dated lower left) Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: private collection Notable fact: Granada-born painter of nudes, astronomy and occult fantasy who worked mainly in London, where...