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The Entry of Christ into Brussels, 1898

  • etching, paper
  • 248 x 355 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-114-1

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In March 1899 James Ensor, together with Edmond Verstraeten, was honoured with an exhibition of his etchings in the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in Brussels. On the occasion of this exhibition, Ensor's friend Eugène Demolder wrote an article in La Revue des beaux-arts et des lettres, in which the print was published for the first time. Through this print, Ensor hoped to introduce his masterpiece "The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889" (Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum) to a wider audience. The print is a fairly accurate copy of the painting. The large banner with the inscription "Vive la sociale" is just missing. In the crowd, however, one notices more inscriptions than in the painting. Most of them were copied from the large drawing "The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem" (inv. 1963-E).

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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Title The Entry of Christ into Brussels
Date 1898
Period 19th century
Location Brussels TGN
Medium and support etching AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: J. Ensor
signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor
inscription: VIVE / JESUS / ET LES REFORMES / COLMAN MUSTART / VIVE DENEYN / MOUVEMENT FLAMAND / LES VIVISECTEURS BELGES INSENSIBLES / LES XX / FANFARES / DOCTRINAIRES / TOUJOURS / REUSSI / LES CHARCUTIERS / DE JERUSALEM / SALUT JESUS / ROI DE / BRUXELLES / PHALANGE / WAGNER / FRACASSANT / LA / SAMARIE / RECONNAISSANTE / VIVE ANSEELE / ET JESUS
inscription on the reverse: AT / AT / AT
inscription on the reverse: 67 / P. 2 3 [...] / [...] B/A [...] / OOA / James Ensor / 59949 / 14 [...]
Collection print room
Object type etching AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-114-1
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-114-1
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4154/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300056485 fantastic art AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11D Christ Iconclass
11D3 Christ as adult Iconclass
11D334 adult Christ together with apostles, evangelists, saints, etc. Iconclass
12A7 the Jews, Jewish life Iconclass
22C light Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass
22C3114 rays as nimbus Iconclass
24A sun as celestial body Iconclass
24A8 sunlight Iconclass
24A81 sunbeams Iconclass
31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass
31A211 (human) skull Iconclass
31F26 Death as skeleton Iconclass
41A housing Iconclass
41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass
41A14 urban housing Iconclass
41C663 mustard Iconclass
41D2421 masquerade, masked ball Iconclass
41D283 mask Iconclass
43A(+2) festivities (+ parade, pageant, cavalcade ~ festive activities) Iconclass
44A311 standard-bearer, flag-bearer Iconclass
44B113 king Iconclass
44C34 politician, e.g. party leader Iconclass
44G22 police Iconclass
45D313 private soldier Iconclass
46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass
47B1814 butcher, slaughterman Iconclass
48A9851 ribbon, scroll, banderole ~ ornament Iconclass
48C71 composer Iconclass
48CC75614 brass band, street band - CC - out of doors Iconclass
54DD311 Waiting, Watching Iconclass
61B2((EDWARD ANSEELE) historical person ((EDWARD ANSEELE) Iconclass
61B2(WAGNER, Richard) historical person (WAGNER, Richard) Iconclass
61D(SAMARIA) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (SAMARIA) Iconclass
61E(BRUSSELS) names of cities and villages (BRUSSELS) Iconclass
61E(JERUSALEM) names of cities and villages (JERUSALEM) Iconclass
73 New Testament Iconclass
73C public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass
73D Passion of Christ Iconclass
73D14 entry into Jerusalem: people spreading their clothes before Christ on the ass, and waving palm branches (Matthew 21:1-11, 21:14-16; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19) Iconclass
School / Style phantasy
historicism (theory) AAT
satire (artistic device) AAT
Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 114)
James Ensor : Catalogue illustré de ses gravures ; Leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques = Geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn gravures ; Hun kritische beschrijving en inventaris van de platen = Illustrated catalogue of his engravings ; Their critical description and inventary of the plates / Auguste Taevernier. - Ledeberg (Gent) : Erasmus Boekhandel bv Amsterdam, 1973 (nr. 114)
Belgische schone : Ensor tot Magritte ; Hoogtepunten uit de verzameling van het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 16.06 - 30.08.2015) / Johan De Smet, Jan Rudolph De Lorm. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2015 ; Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 ; Heule : Uitgeverij Snoeck, 2015 (p. 34, cat. 13 (ill.))
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