Fisherman of Ostend

Public Domain

Artist / maker

James Ensor (etchers)

Date

1900

Period

20th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Ensor repeatedly used popular life in Ostend as the subject of paintings, drawings and etchings. This print probably goes back to a drawing Ensor made in the early 1880s. The theme also intrigued Willy Finch, Ensor's childhood friend from Ostend, in this period. The second state of this print was published in 1910 in the album of the Antwerp artist…
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Ensor repeatedly used popular life in Ostend as the subject of paintings, drawings and etchings. This print probably goes back to a drawing Ensor made in the early 1880s. The theme also intrigued Willy Finch, Ensor's childhood friend from Ostend, in this period. The second state of this print was published in 1910 in the album of the Antwerp artist association L'Art contemporain.
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More about this work

Features
Artist / maker James Ensor VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type drypoint AAT
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper AAT
Dimensions 134 x 95 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 1998-B-118
Description
Subject figures (representations) AAT
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, adult man Iconclass, fisherman Iconclass, names of cities and villages (OSTEND) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-118
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4159/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1998-B-118
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