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Painting of a pale, wild-haired hag crouching over a nude infant on a stone slab, with a knife in the lower right and shadowy witches in a glowing dark background.

The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches

A pale, wild-haired hag crouches over a nude infant lying on a stone slab, while a knife-wielding hand rises from the lower right. Glowing light and shadowy figures of witches fill the dark upper background, in an oil painting with dramatic chiaroscuro.

Artist
Henry Fuseli
Date
1796
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
1833 × 1459 px
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Public domain · Henry Fuseli died 1825 and the work dates by 1796; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: CC0

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Henry Fuseli, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

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