Silhouettes, 1880

pencils (drawing and writing equipment), pastel (material), brown ink, ink, watercolour, gouache, paper
252 x 337 mm
Inv. 1942-G

James Ensor

Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
draftsmen (artists)

print room figures (representations) male sex; man adult man 19th century

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From his attic studio on the corner of the Vlaanderenstraat and the Van Iseghemlaan in Ostend, Ensor had a good view of the city. He recorded daily life on the street in a large number of panoramic black chalk drawings, sometimes heightened with watercolour and pastel. Ensor always combined different fragments on one sheet. This sheet comes from a sketchbook.

Artist	James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949 draftsmen (artists)AAT
Title	Silhouettes
Date	1880
Period	19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings	signature and year below: ENSOR / 80
	signatures (names) top centre: ENSOR
Collection	print room
Object type	pencil drawings AAT ink drawing pastels (visual works) AAT gouache AAT watercolour AAT
Inventory number	1942-G
Acquisition credit	purchase Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1942
Current whereabouts	Work currently not on display
Permalink	https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1942-G
IIIF Manifest	https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1540/manifest.json

Art & Architecture Thesaurus	300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass	25I141 street Iconclass 31A231 standing figure Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41D221(CAP) head-gear: cap Iconclass 41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass 43C71511 shadow pictures (~ hand games) Iconclass 48C524 drawing, sketch Iconclass
School / Style	realism (artistic form of expression) AAT Impressionist (style) AAT

Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Tekeningen, pastels en aquarellen; Inventaris / Moniek Nagels. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1988 (p. 18)
onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 192, cat. 203 (ill.))

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