Although Ensor had a great interest in ballet and dance, these themes are rather exceptional in his graphic oeuvre. His pantomime ballet 'La Gamme d'amour' from 1907, for which the artist himself provided the music, the text, the costumes and the sets, is best known.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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VIAF
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|---|---|
| Title | The Fantastic Ball |
| Date | 1889 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Ensor |
| signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: D75 / 75 / [...] / D75 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-75-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-75-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4099/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F9
mis-shapen animals; monsters
Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 41D2421 masquerade, masked ball Iconclass 41D283 mask Iconclass 43A2 private festivities, merry company Iconclass 43A23 ball, formal dance Iconclass 43C9 dancing Iconclass 46E411 flags flown from a mast Iconclass 48C8421 male dancer Iconclass 48C8422 female dancer Iconclass 52A4 Imagination; 'Imaginatione' (Ripa) Iconclass 52A44 Fantasy, Caprice; 'Capriccio' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT |
| Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 75) |
| 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. 75) |
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