In the living room of the Ernest Rousseau family in Brussels, there were two Frisian cupboards on either side of the fireplace. The family owned a skeleton nicknamed Aglaë, with whom macabre jokes were occasionally played. Ensor made an allusion to this in the third state of this print.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | The Haunted Furniture |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-22 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-22 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4021/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300056485 fantastic art AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
13A3
mysterious phenomena and occurrences
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13B witchcraft, sorcery Iconclass 13B423 incantation, magic sentence Iconclass 25F9 mis-shapen animals; monsters Iconclass 41A2 interior of the house Iconclass 41A731 case furniture Iconclass |
| School / Style |
realism (artistic form of expression)
AAT
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. 22) |
| Unheimlich : Innenräume von Edvard Munch bis Max Beckmann = The Uncanny Home : Interiors from Edvard Munch to Max Beckmann (Ausstellung Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20.10.2016 -29.01.2017) / Volker Adolphs, Johannes Binotto, Irene Horn, Felix Krämer. - München : Hirmer Verlag, 2016 (p. 160) |
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