''A mocking kiss''
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
- Ghezzi: The Master at the Harpsichord and His Two Disciples
- Hogarth: The Four Times of Day
- Anon. British: The Bishopric
- Benedetti: The Night Beauty
- Goya: All Will Fall
- Goya: They are Hot
- Goya: Yes he Broke the pot
- Rowlandson: Death Taking the Young Mother
- Rowlandson: Mr. Bullock's Exhibition of Laplanders
- Gillray: The Bulstrode Siren
- att. to Heath: The Wish Granted
- Desperret: ''The Charter is a reality...''
- Tregear: A Genius
- Travies de Villers: The Political Tower of Babel
- Anonymous (19th Century): The Gout
- Bracquemond: Margot la Critique
- Detouche: La Gourmandise
- Bellows: Solitude
- de Bruycker: Placing the Dragon
- Blampied: Deux Précieux
- Eichenberg: The Follies of the Court
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19. Jules de Bruycker (1870-1945) Le Placement du Dragon (sur le Beffroi de Gand) Placing the Dragon (atop the Ghent Belfry) |
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Le Placement du Dragon (sur le Beffroi de Gand) Placing the Dragon (atop the Ghent Belfry)
Etching, 1914, 368 x 230 mm., Le Roy 42, edition 120. Provenance: Dietrich & Co., Brussels (Lugt 311b). In 1913, in preparation for the World's Fair in De Bruycker's home town of Ghent (Gand), the renovated copper dragon was elevated back up to the pinnacle of the Ghent Belfry. In this whimsical historical scene, De Bruycker has placed himself on the scaffold in the foreground sketching what appears to be pending disaster. The pandemonium is accentuated by the multitude of birds having to vacate the belfry and the annoyance of the snorting dragon, who is being yanked forward by his tongue. Such bumbling incompetence is always more amusing in the safety of two-dimensionality. Fine impression with plate tone on simili-japon with good margins, titled, signed and numbered in pencil from the edition of 120.
