The Bewitched Groom
Hans Baldung · 1544 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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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- Maker
- Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85–1545)
- Date
- 1544
- Medium
- woodcut
- Place of origin
- Germany
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
More by Hans Baldung
Shown in
- The Silver Jubilee ExhibitionJun 23, 1941 – Sep 28, 1941
- 16th Century German WoodcutsJan 24, 1939 – Feb 26, 1939
- Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum CollectionAug 10, 1938 – Nov 13, 1938
- 16th Century Prints from the Museum CollectionDec 4, 1935 – Dec 29, 1935
- Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum CollectionJun 5, 1934 – Sep 12, 1934
