concept
Walpurgis Night
also: Вальпургиева ночь
The witches' sabbath on the eve of May 1st, made famous by the Walpurgisnacht scene in Goethe's Faust; by the 1880s a stock subject for grand, chaotic fantastical paintings.
Reading notes
- A Woman's Toast §19 Walpurgis Night
The witches' sabbath on the eve of May 1st, familiar from Goethe's Faust and a stock subject for grand, chaotic canvases -- cited here as the kind of overwrought scene a painter, hardened by drawing fashionable women, could knock off effortlessly.