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
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VIAF
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| Title | Acacia |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | drypoint AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription top left: Ensor [...] 88 |
| inscription bottom right: James Ensor 1888 | |
| inscription on the reverse: L'acacia. (pointe sèche) Epreuve no 5 | |
| 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 | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| 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 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25I9 landscape with ruins Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 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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