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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.12
People
James Ensor, Belgian (Ostend, Belgium 1860 - 1949 Ostend, Belgium)
Title
Temptation
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Tentation
Alternate Title: Femmes en Promenade
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
after 1900
Culture
Belgian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/334901

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Crayon and brown ink on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
23.5 x 19.7 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right corner, black ink over black crayon: Ensor
  • plaque: formerly affixed to back of frame: PROPRIETE DE DANIEL BRANTON 17.2.1962
  • label: label affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): LE CADRE; SOCIÉTE ANONYME; ANCIENNE MAISON MANTEAU; 29, RUE DES DEUX ÉGLISES; BRUXELLES
  • label: in blue crayon; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): 2
  • label: handwritten in black pen; green border on rectangular label with angled edges, partially torn; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): [...] Willy? [...]
  • label: handwritten in black ink; partially torn paper; affixed to the back of the original frame (in curatorial object file): [...] Tentation
  • plaque: oval; affixed to upper right of the back of the original frame: Maison Manteau Rue des deux Eglises, 29 Bruxelles

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Leopold Branton, Antwerp (by 1940); (to his wife, Josephine?); to Daniel Branton, Lexington (1962-2014), gift; of Daniel and Lana Branton to Harvard Art Museums, 2014.

Footnotes:
The above information is based on correspondence between Daniel Branton and Stephan Wolohojian. Professor Branton believes that the drawing was left in Antwerp with friends for safekeeping when the family fled before the Nazi occupation of 1940. Leopold Branton later returned to Antwerp to recover his art collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel and Lana Branton in memory of Poldek Branton
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.12
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin Einspruch, Fuse Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums, The Arts Fuse ([e-journal], June 9, 2016)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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