Paul F. Berdanier - The Witches' Sabbath a la Mode, 1935

Artwork found at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Alan Odle (1888–1948)

The Crucial Incision, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

The Illness of Candide in Paris, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

Oreillon Reception, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922



The Malicious Satyr




Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915


Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915
 

"Alan Elsden Odle was an English illustrator, remembered today as the husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.  His grotesque and subversive style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide (G. Routledge, 1922), Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, a salute to scatology and Elizabethan manners (London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1936), and The Mimiambs of Herondas.  He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow (London: John Lane, 1932), other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916).  He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922–25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy.

Odle was a distinctly bohemian figure and he associated with an artistic circle that included Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and Wyndham Lewis. When he married Dorothy Richardson he was tubercular and an alcoholic, and was not expected to live long. However, he stopped drinking and lived until 1948. Odle was very thin and "over six feet tall with waist-length hair wound around the outside of his head", which he never cut. He also rarely cut his fingernails. From 1917 until 1939, the couple spent their winters in Cornwall and their summers in London; and then stayed permanently in Cornwall until Odle’s death in 1948. Richardson supported herself and her husband with freelance writing for periodicals for many years, as Alan made little money from his art." - quote source


Artworks found at Victor Arwas Gallery, Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd and alanodle.com

Claude Gillot (1673 - 1722)

Wandering at Night
 Is It an Enchantment

The Feast of Bacchus
 Feast of Pan
 Feast of Diana
 Passion for Gambling
 Passion for Wealth
 Passion for Love
 Passion for War
 Festival of the God Pan

The Birth
 The Education
 The Marriage
 The Funeral

Adolescence (engraved by Jean Audran)
 Youth (engraved by Jean Audran)
 Manhood (engraved by Francois Joullain)
 Old Age (engraved by Francois Joullain)
 Witches' Sabbath

The Witches' Sabbath

The Witches Sabbath (detail)
 Feast of the God Pan

Celebration in Honor of the God Pan
 The Stalled Procession
 Adolescence (study)
 Passion for Gambling (study)

Passion for Love (study)
 The Passion for War (study)
 Mythological Scene
 Scene of Sorcery

"Claude Gillot was instrumental in putting the wit back into French art. With novel subject matter and a spontaneous decorative style, Gillot foreshadowed the Rococo and helped to free French painting from the academic conventions imposed by Charles LeBrun. Moreover, Gillot pursued his career in the margins, beyond court taste and royal patronage, maintaining individualism and reviving the sly spirit of Jacques Callot. Gillot's first teacher was probably his father, a painter and embroiderer. He learned to paint and etch in academic painter Jean-Baptiste Corneille's Paris studio. Gillot entered the Académie Royale in 1715 but made his living as a decorator and painter of arabesques. He also designed book illustrations, tapestry cartoons, and sets and costumes for the opera. The popular theater was Gillot's greatest artistic inspiration, particularly the commedia dell'arte, and he showed that fiction could be as true as reality. His paintings are rare, for after about 1709 he devoted himself entirely to drawing and engraving, working in a nervous, mannered spirit.

Gillot's contemporaries recognized his role in developing the fête galante, which was brought to maturity by his famous student Jean-Antoine Watteau. Despite this recognition, Gillot died impoverished and unappreciateded." - quote source

Artworks found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The British Museum.

Dante Visiting the Underworld, 17th century

While not mentioned on the Jan Muller Antiques site where the painting was found, It has been attributed to David Ryckaert the Younger elsewhere. Additional paintings by Ryckaert were previously posted here.

Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburg (1571 - 1638)

Sibyl showing Aeneas the Underworld, 1620

The Crossing of the Styx, 1591-1638

More paintings from Swanenburg were previously shared here.

Aureliano Milani (1675–1749) - An Old Man on His Deathbed Tempted by Demons, 17th-18th Century

Artwork found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Frans Francken the Younger (1581 - 1642)

The Penitent Mary Magdalene visited by the Seven Deadly Sins, 1607-10

The Witches' Sabbath, 1607

Witch Assembly

Witches' Kitchen

The Witches' Sabbath, 1610

Witch's Sabbath, 1606

Witches' Kitchen, 1606

Witches' Kitchen, 17th C

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1605

Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1610-15

Temptation of Saint Anthony, detail, 1610-15

Cornelis de Bailleur - The Temptation of Saint Anthony, based on Frans Francken the Younger, 17th C

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1604

Pluto Carrying Proserpina Past The Nymph Cyane

Mankind's Eternal Dilemma, The Choice Between Virtue and Vice, 1633

Mankind's Eternal Dilemma, The Choice Between Virtue and Vice, detail, 1633

Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels, 1630-40

The Damned Cast into Hell, 15th C

The Last Judgment, 1606

The Last Judgement, after 1619

The Last Judgement, detail, after 1619

Triumphal Trip of Neptune and Amphitrite

Studio of Frans Francken the Younger - The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite, 1635

Studio of Frans Francken the Younger- The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite, 1655

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1600-20

Homage to the Devil, 17th C

A Witches' Sabbath

Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1620

"Frans Francken the Younger (Antwerp, 1581 – Antwerp, 6 May 1642) was a Flemish painter and the best-known member of the large Francken family of artists. Francken created altarpieces and painted furniture panels, but his reputation chiefly relies on his small and delicate cabinet pictures with historical, mythological, or allegorical themes. He played an important role in the development of Flemish art in the first half of the 17th century through his innovations in many genres including genre painting and his introduction of new subject matter. He was a frequent collaborator of leading Antwerp painters of his time." - quote source 

Image sources include Wikimedia Commons.