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Envious witches were maligned as deceitful, sexualized women, hags who toppled righteous men in their lustful quests. Baldung's bizarre and unsettling image depicts a noble male figure lying unconscious in an open room, as a glaring mare (a symbol of unrestrained sexuality) and flailing witch peer in. The angular nose and chin and sagging, bare breasts of the malevolent hag echo the face and bony chest of Veneziano's emaciated personification of Death.
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Document identity
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112059
label
The Bewitched Groom
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print
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1
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112059
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print
title
The Bewitched Groom
description
Envious witches were maligned as deceitful, sexualized women, hags who toppled righteous men in their lustful quests. Baldung's bizarre and unsettling image depicts a noble male figure lying unconscious in an open room, as a glaring mare (a symbol of unrestrained sexuality) and flailing witch peer in. The angular nose and chin and sagging, bare breasts of the malevolent hag echo the face and bony chest of Veneziano's emaciated personification of Death.
date
1544
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q80004559
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2644
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Print
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1
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Germany
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1930.539
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woodcut
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The Bewitched Groom, 1544. Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85–1545). Woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1930.539
collection
PR - Woodcut
citations
citation
"Two Woodcuts by Hans Baldung (Grün)." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>18, no. 8 (October 1931): 155-157.
page_number
Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 156.
catalogueRaisonne
Karlsruhe 279.77 ; Hollstein 237
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Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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2026-05-29 05:55:28.818000
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112059
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Prints
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PR - Woodcut
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woodcut
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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