Henry Fuseli
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches
1796101.6 x 126.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, by exchange, and Victor Wilbour Memorial, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment, Marquand and Charles B. Curtis Funds, 1980
Provenance
The artist, Henry Fuseli, London (1796–1808; sold to Knowles)
John Knowles, London (1808–at least 1831)
Boyd family, Penkill Castle, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland (until about 1920; given by Mrs. Boyd to Mrs. Smith)
Mrs. Smith, Girvan (from about 1920)
her son, M. Smith, Girvan (until 1980)
sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1980, nr. 79, for £22,000 to a consortium of dealers
with Feigen, et al., New York, 1980; sold to MMA
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