Four Naked Women (The Four Witches), 1496 – 1497

Title

Four Naked Women (The Four Witches)

Artist

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 15th century

Object Type

• art print

Material

• handmade paper
• Vergé paper

Technique

• copperplate engraving

Geographic Reference

• German

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert in der Platte unten mittig: AD; bezeichnet in der Platte auf der herabhängenden Kugel: 1497 / O. G. H.

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): 75
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues

• Hollstein German VII.63.69
• TIB 1001.075
• Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 1.61.17
• Meder 1932.97.69
• Bartsch VII.89.75 1 b oder e

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Ancient holdings; acquired before 1825

Genre

• nude

Main Motif

• woman
• group of people

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Minerva
• Juno
• Venus
• Discordia
• Grazien
• Devil

Associated Medium

• Kramer, Heinrich: Hexenhammer (Malleus Maleficarum), um 1480

Primary

• 31D15(+74) adult woman (+ four persons)
• 41D9 (showing oneself) undressed, quasi-nude

Secondary

• 11K devil(s) and demons
• 49D48 sphere, globe ~ stereometry
• 31F11 death's head, skull (symbol of Death)
• 41AA1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings - AA - civic architecture: inside