Ensor repeatedly used popular life in Ostend as a subject in paintings, drawings and etchings. He was intrigued by life in the harbour town and in his work the artist openly sympathised with the poor, homeless and tramps, who were hidden from the sight of tourists by the local authorities as much as possible. Several prints testify to Ensor's sympathy for these pariahs of society (see inv. 1998-B-91, B-106, B-107 and B-108). Ensor engraved the print "Sick Wretch Warming Himself" after a painting from 1882 (Ostend, Mu.ZEE, destroyed during World War II). There is a pencil drawing of the same image, with the image in mirror image (private collection).
| Artist |
James Ensor
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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| Title | Sick Wretch Warming Himself |
| Date | 1895 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: J ∑ Ensor / 1895 |
| inscription at the top: Pouilleux indisposé se chauffant | |
| signature and year bottom right: James Ensor 1895 | |
| inscription below: Pouilleux indisposé se chauffant | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: D89. | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-91 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-91 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4121/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A46
diseases
Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31D16 old man Iconclass 41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass 41B2 hearth and stove Iconclass 41B22 heating stove Iconclass 41D221(CAP) head-gear: cap Iconclass 46A152 'fahrende Leute', vagrants Iconclass 46A81 wandering communities Iconclass 49G2 patient, sick person Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 89) |
| 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. 91) |
| James Ensor, Occasional Modernist : Ensor's artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art / Herwig Todts. - Turnhout : Brepols, 2018 (p. 326 (ill. 92)) |
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