For "Hop-Frog's Revenge", Ensor based himself on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name. The artist depicted the moment when the king and his ministers, dressed as monkeys, are burning above a carnivalesque crowd, of which Ensor himself is a member. Meanwhile, the dwarf Hop-Frog is fanning the fire with his torch. The composition shows strong similarities to Jacques Callot's drawing "First Interlude of 1617" (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett). Ensor made a lithograph of the scene in 1885, a painting in 1896 and an etching two years later. The etching is a mirror image of the version in lithography.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | Hop-Frog's Revenge |
| Date | 1898 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right, outside the depiction: James Ensor |
| signature and year in the depiction, on the back of a figure: Ensor 98 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1992-L |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Galerij De Vuyst Lokeren 1992-12-14 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1992-L |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3935/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21C
fire (one of the four elements)
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31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass 31A236 lying figure Iconclass 31A237 hanging figure (by the arms, legs, etc.) Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A38 balcony Iconclass 41B1 open fire (in general) Iconclass 41B313 candlestick Iconclass 41D221(FEATHERED HAT) head-gear (FEATHERED HAT) Iconclass 41D221(TOP HAT) head-gear: top hat Iconclass 41D27 drapery, draped garment, 'Gewandgebung' Iconclass 46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass 83(POE, Hop-Frog's Revenge) (scenes from) specific works of literature (POE, Hop-Frog's Revenge) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Symbolism (artistic concept)
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phantasy |
| James Ensor : Geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn gravures, hun kritische beschrijving en inventaris van de platen = catalogue illustré de ses gravures, leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques = illustrated catalogue of his engravings, their critical description and inventary of the plates / Auguste Taevernier. - Antwerpen : Pandora, 1999 ; Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1999 (p. 274-277, nr. T. 112 (ill. T. 112)) |
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