The title of the print is taken from one of Antoine Watteau's best-known works, "Assemblée dans un parc" (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Ensor possibly used Saxon statuettes for the figures.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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VIAF
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| Title | Meeting in a Park |
| Date | 1891 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom right: Ensor / 1891 |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: 1998-B 86 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-86 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-86 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4116/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300056485
fantastic art
AAT
300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F9
mis-shapen animals; monsters
Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25I13 public gardens, park Iconclass 31A235 sitting figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 41D283 mask Iconclass 46A63 meeting, assembly 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. 84) |
| 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. 86) |
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