The Entry of Christ into Brussels
Artist / maker
James Ensor (etchers)Date
1898Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
In March 1899 James Ensor, together with Edmond Verstraeten, was honoured with an exhibition of his etchings in the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in Brussels. On the occasion of this exhibition, Ensor's friend Eugène Demolder wrote an article in La Revue des beaux-arts et des lettres, in which the print was published for the first time. Through this print, Ensor…
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In March 1899 James Ensor, together with Edmond Verstraeten, was honoured with an exhibition of his etchings in the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in Brussels. On the occasion of this exhibition, Ensor's friend Eugène Demolder wrote an article in La Revue des beaux-arts et des lettres, in which the print was published for the first time. Through this print, Ensor hoped to introduce his masterpiece "The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889" (Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum) to a wider audience. The print is a fairly accurate copy of the painting. The large banner with the inscription "Vive la sociale" is just missing. In the crowd, however, one notices more inscriptions than in the painting. Most of them were copied from the large drawing "The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem" (inv. 1963-E).
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