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Acacia, 1888

  • drypoint, paper
  • 133 x 86 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-24-1

Public Domain

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Ensor usually based his graphics on his own drawings, or derived certain motifs from them. As far as is known, however, Ensor drew few landscapes. In view of the relatively large number of landscape etchings (about 20), it seems as if the artist went straight into nature with the etching plate. Ensor etched a few faces in the woods around Ostend and made a series of polder landscapes with villages, detached houses or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg. When he was in Brussels, he worked in the Leopold Park, near the home of the Rousseau family, and in the municipalities of Watermael-Boitsfort and Groenendaal. This acacia is still standing in Leopold Park. Ensor combined the tree with ruins, which may have been inspired by the ruins of the abbey of Villers-la-Ville.

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949

Title Acacia
Date 1888
Period 19th century
Medium and support drypoint AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings printed inscription top left: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">Ensor [...] 88</span></p>
inscription bottom right: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">James Ensor 1888</span></p>
inscription on the reverse: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">L'acacia. (pointe sèche) Epreuve no 5</span></p>
Collection print room
Object type drypoint AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-24-1
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-24-1
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4023/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 11P3151 abbey, monastery, convent ~ Roman Catholic church Iconclass
11Q7129 ruin of church, monastery, etc. Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25G3(ACACIA) trees: acacia Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25I9 landscape with ruins Iconclass
47G91 collapsing building Iconclass
61E(BRUSSELS) names of cities and villages (BRUSSELS) Iconclass
61E(VILLERS-LA-VILLE) names of cities and villages (VILLERS-LA-VILLE) Iconclass
61F(PARC LEOPOLD) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (PARC LEOPOLD) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
phantasy
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. 24)
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