The Romantic painter Antoine Wiertz nurtured a great admiration for Peter Paul Rubens. He copied his distinctive lively colour palette, the chiaroscuro, his flamboyant brush strokes and his dynamic tone. This sketch has a spontaneous and lively style and reminds the onlooker of a painting exercise, in which a lugubrious scene is suggested using a sketch-like technique, which lends the work considerable expressiveness and liveliness. At the same time a threatening, almost apocalyptic atmosphere is palpable, which seems to herald the symbolist paintings of artists such as Henry Degroux for example.
| Artist |
Antoine-Joseph Wiertz
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| Title | Sketch |
| Period | 19th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1922-E |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1922 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1922-E |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3833/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
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300033898 history paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21C
fire (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
26E2 lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt Iconclass 31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31E2312 violent death ~ fire Iconclass 33B14 threatening behaviour, challenging Iconclass 41B1 open fire (in general) Iconclass 45A10 symbols, allegories of war; 'Guerra' (Ripa) Iconclass 45M non-combatants ~ war Iconclass 53C22 Menace, Intimidation; 'Minaccie' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Romantic (modern European styles) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 156) |
| Les relations de Monsieur Wiertz : Volume 1: Antoine Wiertz au coeur de son siècle ; Volume 2: Wiertz-Witkin, un tête-à-tête criant (exposition Namur, Musée provincial Félicien Rops et à la maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, 8 septembre - 30 décembre 2007) / Michel Draguet, Christine A. Dupont, Bruno Fornari, Patrick Roegiers, Isabelle De Longrée, André A. Moerman. - Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 2007 |
| 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. 357 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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