Agostino Veneziano [Agostino dei Musi] and Raphael [Raffaello Santi]
The Witch’s Procession
c. 1531
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- Artist: Agostino Veneziano [Agostino dei Musi]
- Artist: Raphael [Raffaello Santi]
The Witch’s Procession
c. 1531
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).
Susan Dackerman, BMA, 'The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints,' September 23, 1998-January 3, 1999, fig. 16, p. 11.
Andaleeb Banta, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest," July 18 - December 19, 2021.
Andaleeb Banta, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest," July 18 - December 19, 2021.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: LR: [Claghorn stamp]; (graphite in diamond): '6077'
Markings: illegible
Artist
Agostino Veneziano [Agostino dei Musi]
Italian, 1490-1540
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