In this performance, the participants in a merry carnival procession undergo a frightening transformation as they climb the mountain. As Ensor noted on the preparatory drawing (Royal Library Albert I, Print Room, Brussels), they turn into a "hellish militia on their way to the Sabbath". It is in this print that Ensor first introduces the grotesque masked creatures.
| Artist |
James Ensor
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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| Title | The Infernal Cortege |
| Date | ca. 1887 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support |
etching
AAT
heightened |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature and year bottom left: Ensor 86 |
| signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor | |
| inscription on the reverse: 9 / Diables se revelant aux [...] / 33 / D10 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-10-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-10-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4002/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11L541414
Hell (as one of the Four Last Things)
Iconclass
11T hell and purgatory Iconclass 11T2(+4) symbols of hell (+ devil(s)) Iconclass 31A21 (human) skeleton Iconclass 31F symbols and personifications of Death Iconclass 31F1 symbols of Death Iconclass 31F11 death's head, skull (symbol of Death) Iconclass 31F2 personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa) Iconclass 43A122 Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration) Iconclass 52A4 Imagination; 'Imaginatione' (Ripa) Iconclass 52A44 Fantasy, Caprice; 'Capriccio' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
phantasy
satire (artistic device) AAT |
| James Ensor : Catalogue illustré de ses gravures ; Leur description critique et l'inventaire des plaques = Geïllustreerde catalogus van zijn gravures ; Hun kritische beschrijving en inventaris van de platen = Illustrated catalogue of his engravings ; Their critical description and inventary of the plates / Auguste Taevernier. - Ledeberg (Gent) : Erasmus Boekhandel bv Amsterdam, 1973 (nr. 10) |
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