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The Bridge in the Wood at Ostend, 1889

  • etching, paper, bister
  • 92 x 132 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-69-3

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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 RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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Title The Bridge in the Wood at Ostend
Date 1889
Period 19th century
Location Ostend TGN
Medium and support etching AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom left: ENSOR
signature and year bottom right: James Ensor 1889
inscription on the reverse: AT
inscription on the reverse: 28 / [...] / Le pont du bois / LD 29 / [uitgegomde getallenreeks]
Collection print room
Object type etching AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-69-3
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-69-3
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4091/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H15 forest, wood Iconclass
25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass
25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass
25H212 brook Iconclass
25H217 river bank Iconclass
41A54 fence, wall, paling Iconclass
46C112 bridge Iconclass
61E(OSTEND) names of cities and villages (OSTEND) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 69)
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. 69)
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