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Forest at Groenendael, 1888

  • drypoint, paper
  • 113 x 75 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-63-1

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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. When he was in Brussels, Ensor worked in Leopold Park, near the home of the Rousseau family and in the municipalities of Watermael-Boitsfort and Groenendael. The View of the Woods in Groenendael was conceived as a pure study of a forest. In the successive states, Ensor first introduced a seated man in the middle and then a standing man on the far left and three seated female figures. All these operations gave the landscape a completely different character. The comparison of the first and last states illustrates how the pictorial effect of the dry needle diminishes with the wearing away of the burrs, as a result of successive printing.

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949

Title Forest at Groenendael
Date 1888
Period 19th century
Location Groenendaal (Hoeilaart) TGN
Medium and support drypoint AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings printed inscription top right: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">ENSOR</span></p>
inscription bottom right: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">James Ensor</span></p>
inscription on the reverse: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">AT</span></p>
inscription on the reverse: <p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:9.0pt;">Sous bois / pointe seche. epreuve no 9</span></p>
Collection print room
Object type drypoint AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-63-1
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-63-1
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4080/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H15 forest, wood Iconclass
31A231 standing figure Iconclass
31A235 sitting figure Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31D14 adult man Iconclass
61E(GROENENDAAL) names of cities and villages (GROENENDAAL) Iconclass
61E(HOEILAART) names of cities and villages (HOEILAART) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 63)
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. 63)
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