Ensor attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1877 to 1880. However, his teachers Joseph Stallaert, Alexandre Robert, Jef van Severdonck and the director Jean Portaels were unable to captivate him. After three years he returned to Ostend. Later, during the winter months, he sometimes moved into a room in Brussels. In the winter of 1887-1888, he lived at No. 123 Anspachlaan. From his studio he looked directly into the Rue du Bon Secours, which connects the Avenue Anspach to the rue du Marché au Charbon. He made a mirror image of the view of the Avenue Anspach in 1887. He also made a drypoint of the building on the right, which occupies about half of the Rue du Bon Secours, in a mirror image (inv. 1998-B-20).
| Artist |
James Ensor
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| Title | House on the boulevard Anspach |
| Date | 1888 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Brussels TGN |
| Medium and support | drypoint AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription bottom left: maison à Bruxelles / gravée à la pointe sèche |
| inscription bottom right: James Ensor 1888 | |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| inscription on the reverse: 32 / D.20 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | drypoint AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-20-2 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-20-2 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3982/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25I
city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions
Iconclass
25I1 city-view in general; 'veduta' Iconclass 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city Iconclass 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass 41A14 urban housing Iconclass 41A144 flat-building, apartment house Iconclass 46B13 shop, store Iconclass 46B132 shop-window, show-window Iconclass 61E(BRUSSELS) names of cities and villages (BRUSSELS) Iconclass 61F(AVENUE ANSPACH) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (AVENUE ANSPACH) 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. 20) |
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