Between 1880 and 1917, the Ensor family lived on the corner of Vlaanderenstraat and Van Iseghemlaan in Ostend. It was here that Ensor created his most important works. From his studio, which was located under the tiled roof, he made various paintings, drawings and prints of the city. The print 'The rooftops in Ostend' is, in a way, a countercultural cityscape that does not focus on the main attractions or provide a panoramic view of the entire city. Ensor depicts the south-western side of the city, in its unadorned ordinariness of untidy backyards and houses built at cross-purposes. The print is largely based on the painting of the same name from 1898 (private collection).
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | Roofs at Ostend |
| Date | 1903 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Location | Ostend TGN |
| Medium and support | etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: Ensor |
| signatures (names) bottom right: James Ensor | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: 31 / 12 / à Ostende Les toits. / Delteil 120. / T | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-120 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-120 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4161/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11Q712
church (exterior)
Iconclass
24F firmament, sky Iconclass 25I city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions Iconclass 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 41A36 roof (of house or building) Iconclass 41B214 chimney Iconclass 47A121 smoke-stack 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. 120) |
| 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. 120) |
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