Agostino Veneziano [Agostino dei Musi] and Raphael [Raffaello Santi]
The Witch’s Procession
1530
Scroll
- Artist: Agostino Veneziano [Agostino dei Musi]
- Artist: Raphael [Raffaello Santi]
The Witch’s Procession
1530
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 302 × 634 mm. (11 7/8 × 24 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2704
This engrossing image, also known as The Carcass, contains all the traditional elements of a witch’s procession. A haggard naked woman collects sacrificial infants while riding a reanimated skeleton. Bizarre hybrid creatures play below her, along with a goat, an animal typically associated in European art with Satan and the occult. Muscular nude men accompany this nighttime parade, holding bones and gathering additional infants as the procession cuts through the marsh landscape.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest
Bartsch, Adam, et al. The Illustrated Bartsch (New York: Abaris Books, 1978 - ongoing 2001): vol. 27, pp. 9-336, #426.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: LR: [Claghorn stamp]; (graphite in diamond): '6077'
Markings: illegible
