The Garden of the Rousseau Family
1885 · Oil on fabric · Cleveland Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- James Ensor (1860–1949)
- Year
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on fabric
- Original size
- 75.5 × 61 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- Expressionism
A leafy garden opens under a blue sky heaped with white cloud: willows and fruit trees in green and silver, a rust-red hedge at the left, a lawn running back to a red-roofed house, and in front a wooden wheelbarrow loaded with a great blue-green cabbage. The paint is laid in small, flickering touches. Ensor painted it in 1885 at the second home of his friends Ernest and Mariette Rousseau in Watermael-Boitsfort, outside Brussels; Mariette was a biologist. The Rousseaus acquired it at the Les XX salon. It is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Fresh greens, sky blue and touches of rust make a sunny garden picture for a kitchen, breakfast room or garden room. Pair it with Van Gogh's Olive Trees at 16×24 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1885)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- kitchen, living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
