View of Nieuwpoort
Artist / maker
James Ensor (etchers)Date
1888Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Ensor usually based his graphic works on his own drawings, or derived certain motifs from them. As far as is known, however, Ensor drew few landscapes. In view of the relatively large number of landscape etchings (about 20), it seems as if the artist went straight into nature with the etching plate. Ensor etched a few faces in the woods…
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Ensor usually based his graphic works on his own drawings, or derived certain motifs from them. As far as is known, however, Ensor drew few landscapes. In view of the relatively large number of landscape etchings (about 20), it seems as if the artist went straight into nature with the etching plate. Ensor etched a few faces in the woods around Ostend and made a series of polder landscapes with villages, detached houses or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg. In addition, he etched in the vicinity of Nieuwpoort.
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