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The Haunted Furniture, 1888

  • etching, paper
  • 135 x 88 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-22

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In the living room of the Ernest Rousseau family in Brussels, there were two Frisian cupboards on either side of the fireplace. The family owned a skeleton nicknamed Aglaë, with whom macabre jokes were occasionally played. Ensor made an allusion to this in the third state of this print.

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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Title The Haunted Furniture
Date 1888
Period 19th century
Medium and support etching AAT
Collection print room
Object type etching AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-22
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-22
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4021/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300056485 fantastic art AAT
Keywords Iconclass 13A3 mysterious phenomena and occurrences Iconclass
13B witchcraft, sorcery Iconclass
13B423 incantation, magic sentence Iconclass
25F9 mis-shapen animals; monsters Iconclass
41A2 interior of the house Iconclass
41A731 case furniture Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT
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. 22)
Unheimlich : Innenräume von Edvard Munch bis Max Beckmann = The Uncanny Home : Interiors from Edvard Munch to Max Beckmann (Ausstellung Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20.10.2016 -29.01.2017) / Volker Adolphs, Johannes Binotto, Irene Horn, Felix Krämer. - München : Hirmer Verlag, 2016 (p. 160)
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