ID: 700000851 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000851	Record Type: Movable Work

[The gendarmes] (etching (print); James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949); Published: 1888; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 888404; (OCoLC)ocn655441280; accession number: 2010.PR.62*)

Note: Several gendarmes are gathered around the bodies of two fishermen who were shot during a strike at Ostend; Gift of Richard A. Simms in Memory of James N. Wood (1941-2010), President and Chief Executive Officer of The J. Paul Getty Trust 2007-2010. Publication: 1888.

Titles:

[The gendarmes] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

[The gendarmes]; [graphic] / Ensor. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1888

Creator Display:

James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949) [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Ensor, James (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949) [500032046]

Trüssel, Fréderic (German collector, 1873-1965) [500354029]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 888404; (OCoLC)ocn655441280; accession number: 2010.PR.62*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: plate mark: 18 x 23.8 cm, on sheet: 25 x 32 cm

General Subject:

events (preferred)

satire

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	police [300025867]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in security and protection occupations>) (AAT)

	fishermen (people) [300025608]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>) (AAT)

	deaths [300151836]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events) (AAT)

	strikes (events) [300137885]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), occupation-related events) (AAT)

Provenance: Dr. Trüssel, Bern, Switzerland; unidentified collector's mark "T" within circle on verso; simms; Gift.

Inscriptions: Ensor.

Marks: collectors' marks

Related Works:

	printed from same plate/block .... [The gendarmes] [700000844]
	..........etching (print); James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949); Published: 1888; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 860732; (OCoLC)ocn655420388; accession number: 2010.PR.10*

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[The gendarmes]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 888404
[The gendarmes]; [graphic] / Ensor.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Taevernier, A. James Ensor no. 55

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)