Fridolin and Gragapança of Yperdamme
Artist / maker
James Ensor (etchers)Date
1895Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
On the etching 'Fridolin and Gragapança of Yperdamme' we see on the left the art critic Eugène Demolder as Gragapança and on the right James Ensor as Fridolin. For this print two preliminary drawings exist, which must have been made after the publication of Demolder's Les contes d'Yperdamme in 1891. The etching is somewhat more detailed than the drawings. In…
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On the etching 'Fridolin and Gragapança of Yperdamme' we see on the left the art critic Eugène Demolder as Gragapança and on the right James Ensor as Fridolin. For this print two preliminary drawings exist, which must have been made after the publication of Demolder's Les contes d'Yperdamme in 1891. The etching is somewhat more detailed than the drawings. In Ensor's jacket pocket we see an issue of the journal La Libre Critique, presumably the one of 6 January 1895, in which Demolder had written an article about Ensor. The print and the drawings refer to a trip that Ensor and Demolder made to Zeeland around 1895. The print is also related to the engraving of musician's teeth that Jacques Callot published in 1617 in the series Capricci.
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