ID: 700009041 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009041	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (oil painting (visual work); James Ensor (Belgian painter and printmaker, 1860-1949); 1888; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 87.PA.96)

Note: Ensor took on religion, politics, and art in this scene of Christ entering contemporary Brussels in a Mardi Gras parade. He used palette knives, spatulas, and both ends of his brush to put down patches of colors with expressive freedom. Ensor's society is a mob, threatening to trample the viewer--a crude, ugly, chaotic, dehumanized sea of masks, frauds, clowns, and caricatures. Public, historical, and allegorical figures, along with the artist's family and friends, make up the crowd. The haloed Christ at the center of the turbulence is in part a self-portrait: mostly ignored, a precarious, isolated visionary amidst the herdlike masses of modern society. Ensor's Christ functions as a political spokesman for the poor and oppressed--a humble leader of the true religion, in opposition to the atheist social reformer Emile Littré, shown in bishop's garb holding a drum major's baton and leading on the eager, mindless crowd.

Titles:

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (preferred,C,U,English-P,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

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

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1888

Creator Display:

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

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

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 87.PA.96

Creation: Bruxelles [7007868] Bruxelles region (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 252.7 × 430.5 cm (99 1/2 × 169 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

Belgian (preferred)

General Subject:

satire (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Jesus Christ [901000087]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Brussels [7007868]
	.....(Bruxelles region (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	caricatures [300015634]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	spectators (event observers) [300189768]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by activity>) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Inscriptions: On red banner at top: "VIVE LA SOCiALE"; on lozenge-shaped banner left of center: "FANFARES DOCTRINAiRES / TOUJOURS RÉUSSi"; on red banner at lower right: "VIVE JESUS / ROI DE / BrUXLLES"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 13 July 2016

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 13 July 2016

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/811/james-ensor-christ's-entry-into-brussels-in-1889-belgian-1888/