James Ensor (1860-1949) - Le verger
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Ensor, Le verger (1886), an etching in the impressionist landscape style, signed on the plate, 15.5 × 24 cm, Belgium, in excellent condition and sold with frame.
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Ensor generally based his prints on his own drawings, or borrowed particular motifs from them.
As far as is known, however, Ensor produced few landscapes. Given the relatively large number of landscape engravings (about 20), it seems that the artist went directly into nature with the engraving plate.
Ensor etched a few faces in the forests around Ostend and created a series of polder landscapes with villages, individual houses, or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg.
As a printmaker who worked from nature, Ensor was particularly fascinated by the way light played in the forests and on the polder plains.
He etched with small, nervous brushstrokes that tremble with tension.
His landscapes are characterized by a controlled and sober style, which gives them a suggestive power.
According to the author Albert Croquez, who catalogued Ensor’s etchings in 1935, the image shows an orchard in Oudenburg, near Ostend. The Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf possesses a drawing that depicts the same scene.
Eau-forte (16 x 24 cm), signed on the plate, printed in brown on Dutch paper, some light spots, frame
Taevernier 2 ii/iii; Croquez 2, Delteil 2, Trixot 5a
Ensor generally based his prints on his own drawings, or borrowed particular motifs from them.
As far as is known, however, Ensor produced few landscapes. Given the relatively large number of landscape engravings (about 20), it seems that the artist went directly into nature with the engraving plate.
Ensor etched a few faces in the forests around Ostend and created a series of polder landscapes with villages, individual houses, or windmills: Mariakerke, Leffinge, Slijkens and Oudenburg.
As a printmaker who worked from nature, Ensor was particularly fascinated by the way light played in the forests and on the polder plains.
He etched with small, nervous brushstrokes that tremble with tension.
His landscapes are characterized by a controlled and sober style, which gives them a suggestive power.
According to the author Albert Croquez, who catalogued Ensor’s etchings in 1935, the image shows an orchard in Oudenburg, near Ostend. The Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf possesses a drawing that depicts the same scene.
Eau-forte (16 x 24 cm), signed on the plate, printed in brown on Dutch paper, some light spots, frame
Taevernier 2 ii/iii; Croquez 2, Delteil 2, Trixot 5a
Details
Artist
James Ensor (1860-1949)
Title of artwork
Le verger
Technique
Etching
Signature
Plate signed
Country of origin
Belgium
Year
1886
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
15.5 cm
Width
24 cm
Depiction/theme
Landscape
Style
Impressionism
Period
19th century
Sold with frame
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