The Haunted Furniture

Public Domain

Artist / maker

James Ensor (etchers)

Date

1888

Period

19th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
In the living room of the Ernest Rousseau family in Brussels, there were two Frisian cupboards on either side of the fireplace. The family owned a skeleton nicknamed Aglaë, with whom macabre jokes were occasionally played. Ensor made an allusion to this in the third state of this print.

More about this work

Features
Artist / maker James Ensor VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type etching
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 135 x 88 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 1998-B-22
Description
Subject fantastic art
Tags interior of the house Iconclass, case furniture Iconclass, mysterious phenomena and occurrences Iconclass, witchcraft, sorcery Iconclass, incantation, magic sentence Iconclass, mis-shapen animals; monsters Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1998-B-22
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/4021/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1998-B-22
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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