Ensor usually based his etchings 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.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | The Bridge in the Wood at Ostend |
| Date | 1889 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Ostend TGN |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: ENSOR |
| title bottom left: Le pont du bois Ostende | |
| signature and year bottom right: James Ensor 1889 | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: D-69. / Ensor / Ta / de la collection e. Serges Versteeghe [?], Blûde [?] / [...] | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-69-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-69-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4089/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21D
water (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 25H212 brook Iconclass 25H217 river bank Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 41A54 fence, wall, paling Iconclass 46C112 bridge Iconclass 61E(OSTEND) names of cities and villages (OSTEND) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 69) |
| 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. 69) |
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