"Your Garden of Love is delightful", wrote Ensor's friend Emma Lambotte when she was sent this elaborate print by Ensor. Ensor coloured in many prints and sometimes went so far that little of the original print is visible anymore and a new 'painting' is created, as it were. Ensor probably borrowed the theme of the love garden from the work of Antoine Watteau, which he knew from reproductions. The print shows strong similarities with 'Les Jaloux', a lost painting by Watteau, whose depiction is known in print. The museum owns various states of the etching, including one coloured version.
| Artist |
James Ensor
RKD
VIAF
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| Title | The Garden of Love |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support |
etching
AAT
heightened |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-61-3 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-61-3 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4078/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A235
sitting figure
Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 33C23 couple of lovers Iconclass 41A6 garden Iconclass 52A4 Imagination; 'Imaginatione' (Ripa) Iconclass 52A44 Fantasy, Caprice; 'Capriccio' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT |
| Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 61) |
| 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. 61) |
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