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Horse Fight, ca. 1902

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 139.5 x 192 cm
  • Inv. 1902-P

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Although Jean Delvin is primarily known as an art educator, he participates intensively in exhibition life. At these exhibitions he mainly displays his talent as an animalist. The theme of the corrida with its bullfights, banderillero's and picadores predominates, both in drawings and paintings. He emphasises the noble power of the animals, in which torment and movement dominate. In Horse Fight, he plays with different plans of light and shadow. Painted with a hard, southern palette, the sturdy bill radiates the influence of impressionism that Delvin is undergoing. At the 1902 Salon in Ghent, the prominent Brussels critic Octave Maus is impressed by the warm colour palette in the painting: "What interests this painting is, above all, the way the tons of hot air are poured into the light, the strong colour contrasts, the glare of the sun on a picturesque scene". In her copy of the exhibition catalogue, the painter Anna De Weert, once a pupil of Delvin, describes the painting as "le clou [du salon]".

Artist

Jean Delvin RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ghent 1853 - Ghent 1922
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Title Horse Fight
Date ca. 1902
Period 19th century
20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: J. Delvin
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1902-P
Acquisition credit long-term loan
Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Brussels
1902
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3749/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300263554 animal paintings AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 22C light Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass
22C8 shadow Iconclass
24A8 sunlight Iconclass
24A81 sunbeams Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass
25F2 mammals Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31B62341 biting Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
41D2333 wooden shoes, clogs Iconclass
43C39612 fight between animals, e.g. a lion and a bear Iconclass
46C13141 horse Iconclass
46C13141(STALLION) horse (STALLION) Iconclass
46C131411 fighting horses Iconclass
46C13185 rearing (horse in motion) Iconclass
46C13186 kicking (horse in motion) Iconclass
46C13187 leading a horse by the reins; rider beside his horse Iconclass
School / Style naturalism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 55)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 129 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
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