This may belong in Café Society, but I’m looking for a factual answer.
There is an old woodcut that depicts a sleigh racing through a forest with a wolf in hot pursuit. Between the sleigh and the wolf is a baby in mid-fall. Did the sleigh hit a bump, causing the baby to fall out? Or did the people in the sleigh toss the baby out so that the wolf would stop chasing them? Sweet.
What is the name of the woodcut? Who made it? When was it made?
“Woodprint”? Need more coffee. If a mod sees this, please change the title to “woodcut”. Thanks.
So… This doesn’t sound familiar?
IIRC it’s a fairly well known painting or illustration of a sleigh being chased on the Russian steppes re the scene you described. Nero Wolfe had this painting in his office.
I think it’s called “Throwing the Baby to the Wolves” but there are no google hits for this name.
Thanks for looking, astro. I didn’t have any luck either.
This may get you a bit further:
Lighten The Troika
OK, it’s been over a decade, but this popped into my head again. Still can’t find it.
Perhaps an artist’s interpretation of this:
From here.
Was Hitler in the sleigh?
Or maybe you’re just recalling Gorey’s Desmond, secretly hoping for wolves
That’s probably related to the Russian story, isn’t it? Thrown from a sleigh is an odd fate to be deadly. He might have conflated Gorey and Lacroix.
I found another print on this licensing site. There is no sacrifice of baby or bride, just a gun.
In fact, more of the images I’ve found so far involve bullets than babies; none involve brides.
I noticed something interesting, the sky in this painting is similar to those mentioned in the NYT article about the effects of the explosion of Tambora, which described wide-spread famine resulting from the volcano.
And you are on the first page of the DuckDuckGo search for “thrown to wolves from Troika”, so there’s that.
Don’t give up hope; I finally found an image after 11 years.
