In this study, one of the most informal in his oeuvre, Ensor combined the representation of two drawings from the series "The Aureoles of Christ": on the left "Christ Shown to the people", on the right "Christ's entry into Jerusalem" (respectively Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, inv. 1988-C and 1963-E). Despite the sketchy character of the drawing, most elements of the two large compositions can be recognised in it, for example, the architecture, the figures in the crowd and the head of the French politician and philosopher Emile Littré. The double sketch also shares the proportional distribution with the large drawings. From this one can deduce that the small study probably originated after the large drawings and not as a preliminary study. Ensor retained the general idea of the series "The Aureoles of Christ" - the nuclei of light in the midst of a lavish architecture and crowd - in a highly dynamic set of lines, curls and accents scattered loosely across the sheet. The two original scenes were integrated into a broadly conceived mass scene, thus forming a transition from the first, elaborate "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem", to the later painting, "Christ's Entry into Brussels", created in 1888 (Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum).
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | Christ Shown to the People and Christ's Entry into Jerusalem |
| Date | ca. 1887 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Ensor |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | pencil drawings AAT |
| Inventory number | 1985-M |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Albrecht, H. Knokke-Heist 1985 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1985-M |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3383/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055874 religious symbolism AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D
Christ
Iconclass
11D3 Christ as adult Iconclass 11D334 adult Christ together with apostles, evangelists, saints, etc. Iconclass 22C light Iconclass 22C2 artificial light Iconclass 22C3114 rays as nimbus Iconclass 25I city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Iconclass 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A421 curtains Iconclass 41A4231 canopy, baldachin Iconclass 41D221(FEATHERED HAT) head-gear (FEATHERED HAT) Iconclass 41D221(HAT) head-gear: hat Iconclass 44C3 politics Iconclass 44C312 political caricatures and satires Iconclass 46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass 46C131 riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman Iconclass 48C161 column, pillar ~ architecture Iconclass 48CC75614 brass band, street band - CC - out of doors Iconclass 59B Social Position Iconclass 59C Justice and Injustice Iconclass 61E(BRUSSELS) names of cities and villages (BRUSSELS) Iconclass 61E(JERUSALEM) names of cities and villages (JERUSALEM) Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass 73D Passion of Christ Iconclass 73D14 entry into Jerusalem: people spreading their clothes before Christ on the ass, and waving palm branches (Matthew 21:1-11, 21:14-16; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19) Iconclass 73D36 Pilate showing Christ to the people, 'Ostentatio Christi', 'Ecce Homo' (John 19:4-6) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Symbolism (artistic concept)
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phantasy |
| James Ensor : Tekeningen en prenten / Robert Hoozee, Sabine Bown-Taevernier, Jan Frederik Heijbroek. - Antwerpen : Mercatorfonds, 1987 (p. 119, nr. 73) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Tekeningen, pastels en aquarellen; Inventaris / Moniek Nagels. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 1988 (p. 18) |
| Fin de Siècle : deel 1. Belgische tekeningen, pastels en prenten van 1885 tot 1905 ; deel 2. Combaz, Jo, Livemont : De verzameling L. Wittamer-De Camps (tentoonstelling Brussel, ASLK-Galerij, 15 maart - 2 juni 1991) / Marc Lambrechts, Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Pierre Baudson. - Brussel : ASLK, 1991 (p. 135, cat. 79 (ill.)) |
| James Ensor ou la fantasmagorie / Michel Draguet. - Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 1999 (nr. 133) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 268 (ill. 120)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 83 (ill.)) |
| James (art) Ensor (exposition New York, Museum of Modern Art, 28 juin - 21 septembre 2009 ; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 20 octobre 2009 - 4 février 2010) / Laurence Madeline, Anna Swinbourne, Susan Maria Canning, Michel Draguet, Robert Hoozee, Xavier Tricot. - New York City : MoMA, 2009 ; Paris : Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2009 |
| James Ensor, Occasional Modernist : Ensor's artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art / Herwig Todts. - Turnhout : Brepols, 2018 (p. 378) |
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