During the First World War, Edgard Tytgat fled to England. While there he took to printmaking. He illustrated the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood and other stories in coloured woodcuts and linocuts. Even after the war Tytgat retained his penchant for narrative and often humorous scenes, frequently painted in a primitive and popular style. In this work we see children on a boat mooring at a paradisiacal island where St Nicholas is waiting for them. The image on the boat’s sail refers to the passage in the Bible where Christ says: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me’. The artist portrays himself amidst the playing children in the walled garden on the island. He did a woodcut of the same subject in the same year.
| Artist |
Edgard Tytgat
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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| Title | Invitation to Paradise |
| Date | 1922 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Nivelles TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: EdgardTytgat / 1922 |
| inscription on the back of the canvas: INVITATION AU PARADIS / NIVELLES 1922 / EdgardTytgat / 111 | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2000-A |
| Current whereabouts | Work on loan |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2000-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4368/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300056485
fantastic art
AAT
300124534 self-portraits AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11H
saints
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11H(NICHOLAS) the bishop Nicholas of Myra (or Bari); possible attributes: anchor, boat, three golden balls (on a book), three purses, three children in a tub, three maidens Iconclass 11P31131 insignia of bishop, e.g. mitre, crozier Iconclass 21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass 25F animals Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25G(+32) plants; vegetation (+ flowers, blossom, blossoming) Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25G41 flowers Iconclass 25G41(WATER-LILY) flowers: water-lily Iconclass 25H213 river Iconclass 25H2143 pond, pool Iconclass 25H217 river bank Iconclass 31A233 kneeling figure Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D1121 tot, toddler ~ the ages of man Iconclass 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D11222 girl (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 31D130 Maidenhood Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 33C82 heavenly love versus earthly love Iconclass 41A635 fenced or walled garden; 'Hortus Conclusus' Iconclass 43C7 children's games and plays Iconclass 43C74 child in environment and time Iconclass 46C23 boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass 46C24 sailing-ship, sailing-boat Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass 47I213 sheep Iconclass 47I2133 lamb Iconclass 48BB1 artist at work, in his workshop - BB - out of doors Iconclass 48C513 portrait, self-portrait of painter Iconclass 48C515 tools, implements of painter Iconclass 48C515(+0) tools, implements of painter (+ variant) Iconclass 48C5151 easel Iconclass 48C5152 palette Iconclass 48C5153 brushes ~ implements of painter Iconclass 48C73512 clarinet, bassoon, oboe, shawm Iconclass 48C75 making music; musician with instrument Iconclass 61B2(TYTGAT, Edgard) historical person (TYTGAT, Edgard) Iconclass 71A321 Garden of Eden, paradise Iconclass 73C722 Christ explaining his doctrine to women and children Iconclass 73C7224 Christ blessing children brought by their mothers, usually with some disciples disapprovingly looking on (Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
naive art
AAT
phantasy |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 37, 326-327 (ill.)) |
| Edgard Tytgat : Herinnering aan een geliefd venster (tentoonstelling Leuven, M-Museum Leuven, 08.12.2017 - 08.04.2018) / Peter Carpreau, Gust Van den Berghe, Klara Rowaert. - Leuven : M (Leuven), 2017 ; Gent : Ludion, 2017 (p. 48, 56-57, cat. 5) |
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