The Swede Elias Magnus Fries was a prominent mycologist, the study of fungi and mushrooms. His publications circulated in the circle around Ernest and Mariette Rousseau, Ensor's Brussels friends. In Ensor literature, the portrait is usually described as 'Le botaniste scandinave Frise', probably after the example of Taevernier, 1973 (1999), no. 3.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | Elias Magnus Fries, the Swedish Mycologist |
| Date | 1886 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription bottom right: Ensor / 1886 |
| inscription bottom right: James Ensor 1886 | |
| inscription on the reverse: Viellard | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-3 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-3 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3992/manifest.json |
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portraits
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25G54
fungi
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31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES) historical person (ELIAS MAGNUS FRIES) 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. 3) |
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