Ensor usually based his etchings on his own drawings, or derived certain motifs from them. As far as is known, however, Ensor drew few landscapes. In view of the relatively large number of landscape etchings (about 20), it seems as if the artist went straight into nature with the etching plate. Ensor etched a few faces in the woods around Ostend and made a series of polder landscapes with villages, detached houses or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg. As an etcher after nature, Ensor was especially fascinated by the rendering of the light in the woods and on the polder plain. He etched with small, nervous traits that tremble with tension. His landscapes are characterised by controlled, sparse writing, which gives them an evocative power.
Artist |
James Ensor
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Title | Storm at the Edge of the Wood |
Date | 1888 |
Period | 19th century |
Medium and support | etching AAT |
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: Ensor 88 |
signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor | |
stamps (tools) on the reverse: AT | |
inscription on the reverse: D. 27. | |
Collection | print room |
Object type | etching AAT |
Inventory number | 1998-B-47-2 |
Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-47-2 |
IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4058/manifest.json |
Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 25H landscapes Iconclass |
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Keywords Iconclass |
25G11
groups of trees
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25G3 trees Iconclass 25H landscapes Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 26C winds Iconclass 31A27412 throwing down something Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass |
School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) 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. 47) |
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