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The Fantastic Ball, 1889

  • etching, paper
  • 75 x 115 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-75-1

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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 RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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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
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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