GOING TO THE FAIR
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
New York Satellite Print Fair Selections
- Dürer, Peasant Couple Dancing
- Beham, The Country Wedding
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Bonasone, The Vision of St. Jerome
- Callot, La Noblesse
- Della Bella, Death on Horseback
- Belloni, Ercole in Tebe
- Filloeul, Différents Caractères
- Canaletto, Imaginary View of Venice
- Piranesi, The Temple of Pola
- Basan, Dictionnaire des Graveurs
- Earlom, A Fruit Piece
- Janinet, Restes du Palais du Pape
- Terebenef, Caricature of Napoléon
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Devéria, Music in the Salon
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fulleylove, Church of Santa Fosca
- Buhot, Le Retour des Artistes
- Forain, En Cabinet Particulier
- Short, The Night Picket Boat
- Corinth, The Old King
- Hassam, Madonna of the North End
- Ensor, Bataille des Éperons
- Gandara, Portrait de Femme
- Higgins, Figure on the Stairs
- Orlik, Karrenschreber
- Laboureur, Images Bretonnes
- Laboureur, Flower Sellers, London
- Thorne, Pony and Bug
- Torre-Bueno, West 86th Street
Bataille des Éperons d’Or
Etching, 1895, 177 x 237 mm., Delteil 95, Tavernier 96 only state. Fine, clear impression on tan wove paper with good margins ; some tiny splits at the lower sheet edge, far from the image. Unsigned (except in the plate) and almost certainly one of the 125 impressions included in the deluxe edition of Delteil’s catalog of Ensor’s prints, published in 1925. Ensor’s visual imagination is as wild as usual here, but the Battle of the Golden Spurs was an actual historical event. It took place near Courtrai in Flanders on July 11, 1302, between the horse-mounted knights of France and the Flemish foot soldiers and was an early example of an infantry (helped by the terrain) overcoming cavalry. The date is well remembered in Belgium and, in 1973, was chosen to be that of the official holiday of the Flemish community.