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. It is possible that the mill of Oudenburg, a village in the vicinity of Ostend, is depicted here. Ensor built a classical-looking landscape around the central motif, with a dark foreground and minuscule figures in the middle plot.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | Village Fair at the Windmill |
| Date | 1889 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) top left: Ensor |
| signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor. | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: [...]600 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-72-1 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-72-1 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4094/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
24F
firmament, sky
Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 43A3 pleasure fair and circus Iconclass 47D31 windmill Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Henri Leys, Henri de Braekeleer, James Ensor / Loys Delteil. - Paris : Chez l'Auteur, 1925 (nr. 72) |
| 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. 72) |
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