# The Bewitched Groom

- By: Hans Baldung (German, 1484/85–1545)
- Date: 1544
- Medium: woodcut
- Classification: Print
- Culture: Germany
- Credit line: Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.539)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1930.539/1930.539_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Adult profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Envious witches were maligned as deceitful, sexualized women, hags who toppled righteous men in their lustful quests. Baldung's bizarre and unsettling image depicts a noble male figure lying unconscious in an open room, as a glaring mare (a symbol of unrestrained sexuality) and flailing witch peer in. The angular nose and chin and sagging, bare breasts of the malevolent hag echo the face and bony chest of Veneziano's emaciated personification of Death.