After completing his studies at the Art Academy in Brussels, Henri Evenepoel moved to Paris in 1892. Like many other artists he was interested in developments in French art. His most mature works were painted in the years that followed and included this portrait of his friend, the Spanish painter Francisco Iturrino. The monumental sombre figure, dressed in a wide cape, is depicted life-size in the Place Blanche. The upper part of his body is set against a lively background dominated by the bright red of the Moulin Rouge. The harmonious colours, powerful style, soberness and the daring setting which makes the figure stand out from the crowd give the subject an air of great distinction. Photographs taken in the studio show that the figure was painted before the background. The painting was the only work Evenepoel ever sold to a museum.
| Artist |
Henri Evenepoel
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| Title | The Spaniard in Paris (Portrait of the Artist Francisco Iturrino) |
| Date | 1899 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Paris TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: h.j e. evenepoel. / 99 |
| inscription and year reverse, on the stretcher: HENRI EVENEPOEL / 1899 [vreemde hand ?] | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1898-I |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
salon Ghent 1899 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1898-I |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/130/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015637
portraits
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300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G11
groups of trees
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25G3 trees Iconclass 25I1 city-view in general; 'veduta' Iconclass 25I142 avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade Iconclass 25I144 square, place, circus, etc. Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A25411 walking arm in arm Iconclass 31A2621 one leg in front of the other Iconclass 31A2711 walking Iconclass 31A534 beard Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 31D17 old woman Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 41A144 flat-building, apartment house Iconclass 41B33(+0) lantern (+ variant) Iconclass 41D2121 coat Iconclass 41D2122 cape Iconclass 41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass 43B13 walking, hiking (recreation) Iconclass 47D31 windmill Iconclass 48C512 painter in non-work situation Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(FRANCISCO ITURRINO) historical person (FRANCISCO ITURRINO) Iconclass 61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass 61E(PARIS) names of cities and villages (PARIS) Iconclass 61F(BOULEVARD DE CLICHY) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (BOULEVARD DE CLICHY) Iconclass 61F(MOULIN ROUGE) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (MOULIN ROUGE) Iconclass 61F(PLACE PIGALLE) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (PLACE PIGALLE) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Impressionist (style) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 65 (ill.)) |
| Henri Evenepoel : Belgian Painter in Paris ; 1892-1899 / Francis E. Hyslop. - University Park-Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975 (p. 118) |
| Het portret in het oeuvre van Henri Evenepoel (1872-1899) : bijdrage tot de portretstudie / Marianne Bollen. - s.l. : s.n., 1985 (p. 294-296) |
| Art in Belgium from the Middle Ages to the present day / Colette Souillard, Georges-Henri Dumont. - Tielt : Uitgeverij Lannoo, 1985 (p. 118) |
| Het impressionisme en het fauvisme in België / Serge Goyens de Heusch, Philippe Roberts-Jones. - Antwerpen : Mercatorfonds, 1988 (p. 159) |
| Het impressionisme en het fauvisme in België = L'impressionisme et le fauvisme en Belgique (tentoonstelling Elsene, Museum van Elsene, 12.10 - 16.12.1990) / Serge Goyens de Heusch. - Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1990 (p. 114-116, cat. 31 (ill.)) |
| Catalogo de la obra grafica de Francisco Iturrino = Francisco Iturrinoren : Grafizko artelaren bilduma-liburua / Kosme De Barañano, Javier González de Durana. - Vitoria-Gasteiz : Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco, 1988 (p. 219) |
| Brussel : Fin de Siècle / Philippe Roberts-Jones, Paul Aron, Françoise Dierckens, Michel Draguet. - Parijs : Flammarion, 1994 ; Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1994 (p. 204) |
| De Fortuny à Picasso : Trente ans de peinture espagnole 1874 - 1906 (tentoonstelling Agen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 05.11.1994 - 19.02.1995 ; Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 13.03 - 27.06.1995 ; Castres, Musée Goya, 04.07 - 03.09.1995) / Claude Pétry, Franscesc Fontbona de Vallescare, José Corredor-Matheos. - Paris : Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1994 (p. 156) |
| Kindercatalogus Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Helke Lauwaert, Petja Gekiere, Celesta Daniëls, Karen Van Gulik. - Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 1998 |
| De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (omslag, p. 123, 128 (ill.), 176 (ill.)) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. (ill. 107)) |
| D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 32, cat. 1) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 25 (ill.), 152-153 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 100 (ill.)) |
| Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870 - 1914 : Strangers in Paradise / Karen L. Carter, Susan Waller, Norma Broude, Maite Van Dijk, Richard D. Sonn. - Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015 |
| Hoofd en Bijzaak : Portretkunst in Vlaanderen van 1420 tot nu / Katlijne Van der Stighelen. - Zwolle : Waanders Uitgevers, 2008 (VII, p. 257-261) |
| Antwerpen - Brugge - Gent : De musea en hun kunstschatten van Van Eyck tot Magritte ; ontdek het rijke erfgoed in drie Vlaamse steden ; de Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Geert Souvereyns, Till-Holger Borchert, Paul Vandenbroeck. - Dijon : Éditions Faton, 2007 (p. 72-73 (ill.)) |
| Henri Evenepoel (1872-1899) : Een schilder in Parijs / Eric Min. - Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij, 2016 (ongenummerde afbeelding tussen p.384 en 385) |
| Picasso in Paris 1900-1907 : Eating Fire = Devorar París (exhibition Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 18.02.2011 - 29.05.2011 ; Barcelona, Museu Picasso, 30.06.2011 - 15.10.2011) / Marilyn McCully, Nienke Bakker, Isabel Cendoya, Peter Read, Michael Raeburn. - Brussel : Mercatorfonds, 2011 ; Amsterdam : Van Gogh Museum, 2011 ; Barcelona : Museu Picasso, 2011 |
| Paris 1900 : La ville spectacle (exposition Paris, Petit Palais-Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 02.04 - 17.08.2014) / Christophe Leribault, Alexandra Bose, Dominique Lobstein, Gaëlle Rio, Dominique Kalifa, Pierre Citti, Jean-Claude Yon. - Paris : Paris musées, 2014 |
| La septième exposition de La "Libre Esthétique" (Bruxelles 01.03 - 31.03.1900) / Jeanne Desfagnes. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 49) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| Henri Evenepoel : Een reis naar Algerije ; rotatie van kunstwerken in het Museum fin-de-siècle (Brussel, KMSKB, 15.12.2021 - 11.12.2022) / Willemijn Stammis. - Brussel : Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (Brussel), 2022 |
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