Witches' Sabbath or Aquelarre is one of 14 from the Black Paintings series by Goya, C. 1821. In an array of earthen colors, a black silhouetted horned figure to the left foreground presides over and addresses a large circle of a tightly packed group of wide-eyed intense, scary, elderly and unruly women. . Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746 – 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker, considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His pain