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Hop-Frog's Revenge, 1885 - ca. 1898

  • lithography, paper
  • 377 x 265 mm
  • Inv. 1998-C

Public Domain

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For "Hop-Frog's Revenge", Ensor based himself on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name. The artist depicted the moment when the king and his ministers, dressed as monkeys, are burning above a carnivalesque crowd, of which Ensor himself is a member. Meanwhile, the dwarf Hop-Frog is fanning the fire with his torch. The composition shows strong similarities to Jacques Callot's drawing "First Interlude of 1617" (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett). Ensor made a lithograph of the scene in 1885, a painting in 1896 and an etching two years later. The etching is a mirror image of the version in lithography.

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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Edgar Allan Poe
Boston 1809 - Baltimore 1849
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Title Hop-Frog's Revenge
Date 1885 - ca. 1898
Period 19th century
Medium and support lithography AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names): ENSOR
signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor
Collection print room
Object type lithographs AAT
Inventory number 1998-C
Acquisition credit purchase
Van der Perre, Paul (coll.)
Brussels
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-C
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4136/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300056485 fantastic art AAT
Keywords Iconclass 21C fire (one of the four elements) Iconclass
31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass
31A236 lying figure Iconclass
31A237 hanging figure (by the arms, legs, etc.) Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
41A38 balcony Iconclass
41B1 open fire (in general) Iconclass
41B313 candlestick Iconclass
41D221(FEATHERED HAT) head-gear (FEATHERED HAT) Iconclass
41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass
41D27 drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' Iconclass
46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass
83(POE, Hop-Frog's Revenge) (scenes from) specific works of literature (POE, Hop-Frog's Revenge) Iconclass
School / Style phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT
Symbolism (artistic concept) 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
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