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The Witches' Sabbath
The Witches' Sabbath

The Witches' Sabbath

Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
1510
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in gray and black
DimensionsBlock: 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.)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number69.1064
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsDated in block, on tree trunk, center right: 1510Provenance1823, 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)

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