The etching "Christ Calming the Storm" is closely related in theme and style to the series "The Aureoles of Christ", also created around 1885-1886. In 1891 Ensor reworked the same theme in oil (Ostend, Mu.ZEE, inv. 1975/711). In the painting, and perhaps also for the etching, William Turner's perception of the landscape served as a model. Working in drypoint, the first state of the etching possesses pictorial effects, an effect that is further enhanced by the intense lighting effects.
| Artist |
James Ensor
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VIAF
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| Title | Christ Calming the Storm |
| Date | 1886 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support |
drypoint
AAT
etching AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature, year and inscription bottom right: James Ensor 1891 [...] |
| inscription on the reverse: AT | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type |
drypoint
AAT
etching AAT |
| Inventory number | 1998-B-5 |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Taevernier, Auguste (coll.) 1998 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-5 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3994/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300055874 religious symbolism AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11D
Christ
Iconclass
22C light Iconclass 22C3 supernatural light Iconclass 22C31 radiance emanating from persons or things Iconclass 25H23 sea (seascape) Iconclass 25H2322 sea Iconclass 26C3 storm Iconclass 26C32 storm at sea Iconclass 43C128 fisherman Iconclass 46C23 boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass 46C24 sailing-ship, sailing-boat Iconclass 47K commercial fishery Iconclass 73 New Testament Iconclass 73C31 story of Christ stilling the storm on the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 8:23-27; Mark 4:35-41; Luke 8:22-25) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
phantasy
historicism (theory) 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. 5) |
| Fin de Siècle : deel 1. Belgische tekeningen, pastels en prenten van 1885 tot 1905 ; deel 2. Combaz, Jo, Livemont : De verzameling L. Wittamer-De Camps (tentoonstelling Brussel, ASLK-Galerij, 15 maart - 2 juni 1991) / Marc Lambrechts, Anne Adriaens-Pannier, Pierre Baudson. - Brussel : ASLK, 1991 (p. 134, cat. 78 (ill.; ander exemplaar)) |
| James Ensor, Occasional Modernist : Ensor's artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art / Herwig Todts. - Turnhout : Brepols, 2018 (p. 348 (ill. 131)) |
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