Ensor usually based his graphics on his own drawings, or derived certain motifs from them. As far as is known, however, Ensor drew few landscapes. In view of the relatively large number of landscape etchings (about 20), it seems as if the artist went straight into nature with the etching plate. Ensor etched a few faces in the woods around Ostend and made a series of polder landscapes with villages, detached houses or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg. As an etcher after nature, Ensor was especially fascinated by the rendering of the light in the woods and on the polder plain. He etched with small, nervous traits that tremble with tension. His landscapes are characterised by controlled, sparse writing, which gives them an evocative power. According to the author Albert Croquez, who catalogued Ensor's etchings in 1935, the depiction is of an orchard in Oudenburg near Ostend. The Kunstmuseum in Düsseldorf has a drawing with the same scene. The original etching plate from 1886 was reused for Die Insel.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | The Orchard |
| Date | 1886 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription bottom right: ENSOR |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-2-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-2-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3990/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G3
trees
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25G4(GRASS) plants and herbs (GRASS) Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 47I411 orchard Iconclass 61E(OUDENBURG) names of cities and villages (OUDENBURG) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) 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. 2) |
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