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The Dead Christ Mourned by Angels, 1886

  • Conté crayon, panel
  • 160 x 215 mm
  • Inv. 2015-MU

Public Domain

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Artist

James Ensor RKD VIAF Wikidata
Ostend 1860 - Ostend 1949
draftsmen (artists)AAT

Title The Dead Christ Mourned by Angels
Date 1886
Period 20th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signature and year bottom right: Ensor 86
Collection print room
Object type pencil drawings AAT
Inventory number 2015-MU
Acquisition credit purchase
Taevernier, Sabine
2015
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-MU
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/7368/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300055874 religious symbolism AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11D Christ Iconclass
11D3 Christ as adult Iconclass
11D334 adult Christ together with apostles, evangelists, saints, etc. Iconclass
11G angels Iconclass
11G193 female angels Iconclass
11Q751 (public) prayer Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
31A236 lying figure Iconclass
31A25221 hands folded with fingers knit Iconclass
31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
73 New Testament Iconclass
73C public life of Christ: from his baptism until the Passion Iconclass
73D612 the cross(es) in the background Iconclass
73D82(CROSS) cross ~ instruments of the Passion Iconclass
73D82(CROWN OF THORNS)(+3) crown of thorns ~ instruments of the Passion (+ angel(s)) Iconclass
School / Style Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT
historicism (theory) AAT
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. 187, cat. 114 (ill.))
James Ensor, Occasional Modernist : Ensor's artistic and social ideas and the interpretation of his art / Herwig Todts. - Turnhout : Brepols, 2018 (p. 355 (ill. 142))
Mock Humanity : two essays on James Ensor's grotesques ; James Ensor's grotesques and the History of Caricature by Jules Champfleury ; Frame and figure in the work of James Ensor / Bart Verschaffel. - Ghent : A&S Books, 2018 (p. 28)
The Social Context of James Ensor's Art Practice / Susan Maria Canning. - London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 (p.38)
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