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Climb from the groom’s boot soles up his body to his face, then find the torch at the window, the horse’s backward glance and the shield hanging on the wall.
A stable hand lies on his back, seen from his boots so that he seems to slide toward us, while a horse looks round and an old woman with a burning torch leans in at the window. Baldung made the woodcut around 1544, shortly before his death in 1545. The Art Institute of Chicago’s record notes that the Bartsch catalogue of prints once listed it under Hans Brosamer.
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper · Block/sheet: 34.2 × 20.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Northern Renaissance
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- Museum title
- The Bewitched Groom
- Artist
- Hans Baldung Grien German, 1484/85-1545
- Date
- c. 1544
- Medium
- Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Block/sheet: 34.2 × 20.1 cm (13 1/2 × 7 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.