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View of Nieuwpoort, 1888

  • etching, paper
  • 85 x 134 mm
  • Inv. 1998-B-30

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Ensor usually based his graphic works 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. In addition, he etched in the vicinity of Nieuwpoort.

Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
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Title View of Nieuwpoort
Date 1888
Period 19th century
Location Nieuwpoort TGN
Medium and support etching AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings printed inscription bottom right: Ensor
inscription bottom right: James Ensor
inscription on the reverse: AT
inscription on the reverse: D 30
Collection print room
Object type etching AAT
Inventory number 1998-B-30
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.)
1998
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-30
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4034/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015636 landscapes AAT
300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11Q712 church (exterior) Iconclass
21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass
24F firmament, sky Iconclass
25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass
25H213 river Iconclass
25H217 river bank Iconclass
25I city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Iconclass
25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass
25I22 prospect of village, silhouette of village Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
300015636 landscapes AAT
41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass
46C2231 pier, quay, wharf Iconclass
61D(YSER) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (YSER) Iconclass
61E(NIEUPORT) names of cities and villages (NIEUPORT) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
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. 30)
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