Godfried Devreese nurtured a deep affection for his parents and used all his craftsmanship to depict his father and mother in a particularly expressive way. His father Constant, a sculptor, is depicted at age 78, his mother Virginie at 72. At the bottom of the cut-off is a variety of sculpture equipment.
Artist |
Godfried Devreese
RKD
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Alexis Rudier
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Title | Constant Devreese and Virginie Vande Wiele, the Parents of the Artist |
Date | 1903 |
Period | 20th century |
Location | Paris TGN |
Medium and support |
silvering
AAT
galvanizing AAT |
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | text bottom left and right: AETATIS / 78 en rechts, AETATIS / 72 |
signatures (names) outside the depiction, left: G DEVREESE . | |
name: CONSTANT . DEVREESE . / ET VIRGINIE . / . VANDE WIELE | |
Collection | medals AAT |
Object type | rounded plaque |
Inventory number | 1909-X |
Acquisition credit |
purchase
Devreese, Godfried 1909 |
Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1909-X |
IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7639/manifest.json |
Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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Keywords Iconclass |
31A71
male sex; man
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D16 old man Iconclass 31D17 old woman Iconclass 42G2111 father (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2112 mother (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48C22 sculptor in non-work situation Iconclass 48C25 tools, implements of sculptor Iconclass |
Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles en 1910 : Salon international de la médaille contemporaine... : Groupe II: Beaux-Arts ; Classe 9B: Gravure en médailles (Bruxelles, Palais du Cinquantenaire, 01.05 - 15.11.1910) ; Catalogue / Victor Tourneur. - Bruxelles : Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910 (p. 62) |
De 19de-eeuwse Belgische beeldhouwkunst (tentoonstelling Brussel, de Generale Bank, 5.10 - 15.12.1990) / Jacques Van Lennep, Pierre Baudson, Helena Bussers. - Brussel : Generale Bank, 1990 (p. 362-363) |
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