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The Witches' Sabbath
Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
1510
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in gray and black
Dimensions
Block: 37.5 × 29.9 cm (14 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 39.4 × 27.2 cm (15 1/2 × 10 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 39.4 × 27.2 cm (15 1/2 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number69.1064
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 055; Curjel 16; Geisberg 121; Hollstein 235; Mende 16; Yale 18
Signed
Signed in block, on tablet, center right: HBG [monogram]
Marks
Verso, collector's stamp in black: LOEDEL [Lugt suppl. 1692a]; collector's signature in black ink: Hv.Loedel 1853.-1860; collector's signature in black ink: Boerner/1823/P.vh.V.q.B[?] [J.A. Boerner, Lugt 269]; collector's signature in black ink: J.D. Böhm [Lugt 272]; collector's stamp in black, in double-bordered circle: Y.W. [Graf Yorck von Wartenburg, Lugt suppl. 2669]; MFA stamp in brown with accession number in graphite: 69.1064; in graphite: LAA.; B.55
InscriptionsDated in block, on tree trunk, center right: 1510
Provenance1823, Johann Andreas Boerner (b. 1785 - 1862; Lugt 269), Nuremberg. Joseph Daniel Böhm (b. 1794 - d. 1865; Lugt 272), Vienna. Heinrich Burkhart Loedel (b. 1798 - d. 1861; Lugt 1692a), Göttingen; November 24, 1862, Loedel sale, Weigel, Leipzig, lot 567. Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (b. 1805 - d. 1865; Lugt 2669), Klein-Oels, Silesia; by descent within the family; May 2-3, 1932, Yorck von Wartenburg sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 192, sold for M 3100. By 1939, W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1955, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 14, 1970)