Hop-Frog's Revenge
Date
1898Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
For the print "Hop-Frog's Revenge", Ensor based himself on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name. The artist depicted the moment when the king and his ministers, dressed as monkeys, are burning above a carnivalesque crowd, of which Ensor himself is a member. Meanwhile, the dwarf Hop-Frog is fanning the fire with his torch. The composition shows strong similarities…
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For the print "Hop-Frog's Revenge", Ensor based himself on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name. The artist depicted the moment when the king and his ministers, dressed as monkeys, are burning above a carnivalesque crowd, of which Ensor himself is a member. Meanwhile, the dwarf Hop-Frog is fanning the fire with his torch. The composition shows strong similarities to Jacques Callot's drawing "First Interlude of 1617" (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett). Ensor made a lithograph of the scene in 1885, a painting in 1896 and an etching two years later. The etching is a mirror image of the version in lithography.
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