Witches’ Sabbath

Museum-quality digital canvas print

Beneath a slivered moon and a sky swirling with bats, a goat-headed figure—crowned with withered leaves—raises a hoof in benediction. Before him, a coven of women kneels, caught between trance and terror. A child is offered. Shadows pulse at the edges. This is Witches’ Sabbath—Goya’s haunting portrait of hysteria, superstition, and the seductive power of fear.

Painted at the turn of the 19th century, this scene is not fantasy—it is indictment. Goya, disillusioned by the Inquisition and the irrational grip of folklore on Spanish society, crafts a tableau where madness is ritualized and the grotesque parades as devotion. The figures are raw, human, and eerily believable. The Devil here does not roar—he presides.

This oil sketch, part of Goya’s famed series of witchcraft paintings, is a masterwork of tension and suggestion. The brushwork is loose, the atmosphere thick, the palette shifting between ochre earth and supernatural blue. It feels like a dream—but one from which you do not wake clean.

Our museum-quality digital canvas reproduction captures every unsettling nuance—the sly gesture of the goat, the sidelong glances, the weight of darkness pressing in. Ideal for spaces that invite introspection, provocation, and the surreal.

At Gatekeepers.la, we open the gates not only to beauty, but to truth at its most disturbing. Witches’ Sabbath is not merely a painting—it is a confrontation.