Ensor attended classes at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1877 to 1880. His teachers Joseph Stallaert, Alexandre Robert, Jef van Severdonck and director Jean Portaels, however, could not captivate him very much. After three years he returned to Ostend. Later on, during the winter months, he sometimes moved into a room in Brussels. In the winter of 1887-1888, he lived at the Avenue Anspach no. 123. From his workroom he looked straight into the rue de Bon Secours, which connects the Avenue Anspach with the rue du Marché au Charbon. He made a mirror image of the view of Avenue Anspach in 1887. He also made a drypoint of the building on the right, which occupies about half of the rue de Bon Secours, in mirror image (inv. 1998-B-20).
| Artist |
James Ensor
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VIAF
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| Title | House on the boulevard Anspach |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Brussels TGN |
| Medium and support | drypoint AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right, outside the depiction: James Ensor 1888 |
| number bottom left: 20 | |
| number bottom right: 120 | |
| title and inscription: 2 Maison à Bruxelles / gravure + le printe [...] | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | drypoint AAT |
| Inventory number | 1982-R |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Van der Perre, Paul (coll.) 1982 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1982-R |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3273/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25I1
city-view in general; 'veduta'
Iconclass
25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 41A144 flat-building, apartment house Iconclass 46B13 shop, store Iconclass 46B132 shop-window, show-window Iconclass 61E(BRUSSELS) names of cities and villages (BRUSSELS) Iconclass 61F(AVENUE ANSPACH) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (AVENUE ANSPACH) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 64-67) |
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