Ensor usually based his graphics 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 | Little View of Mariakerke (Ostend) |
| Date | 1887 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support |
drypoint
AAT
etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription bottom right: Ensor |
| inscription bottom right: Pour Mr Marcel Dorsès / en souvenir de mon ballet 'La gamme d'amour' / James Ensor | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: D.16 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-16-3 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-16-3 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4011/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300236227
townscapes (representations)
AAT
300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11Q712
church (exterior)
Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H1321 dunes (sea not visible); in the dunes Iconclass 25I22 prospect of village, silhouette of village Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 61E(MARIAKERKE) names of cities and villages (MARIAKERKE) Iconclass 61E(OSTEND) names of cities and villages (OSTEND) 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. 16) |
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