Can Anyone help to identify this painting?

[Ripp3r]

I've been searching for ages to find out who painted this piece and was wondering if anyone here could help me figure it out.

[pauland]

I have no idea. She's certainly up to no good.

[gwpriester]

Yeah, that's what I thought when I saw the bloody knife in her hand and part of an infant face down in a basin on the right.

Not sure if that is another hapless baby in her lap.

[zaphodeist]

The painting appears here - http://soria-goig.com/historia/pedro...plandor_14.htm - which I think is about witches but I can't see details ... think it's just illustrating

That basin is a cooking pot

[pauland]

I did try google, but ended up on a site describing medieval torture.. ..nasty (to put it mildly).

[zaphodeist]

That link leads to a page that Chrome translates and I think it's to do with the Inquisition

[Ripp3r]

Thank you all for the help so far, I still can't find anything except that a band named deadbodieseverywhere has used it as their cover art. From my limited knowledge of art I would have to guess that it the virgin Mary based on the colours she's wearing and the baby who would be Jesus.

[pauland]

I would have to guess that it the virgin Mary based on the colours she's wearing and the baby who would be Jesus.

Definitely not - she's a witch cutting up babies and cooking them.

[wizard509]

Ripp3r I was wondering if this is the complete painting because I see a knee on the left side that isn't on the one in the link zaphodeist posted. I find that very odd.

Here are the two side by side.

[zaphodeist]

At first look I thought Hogarth ... you know, one of those "look this is where drink gets you" prints. It seems to be a detail from a larger piece.