Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent), Jules de Bruycker

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Jules de Bruycker, Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent)
Jules de Bruycker, Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent)
Jules de Bruycker
Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent)
1906
Jules de Bruycker
1870–1945
Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent), 1906
Where object was made: Belgium
Material/technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 340 x 138 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 3/8 x 5 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 414 x 208 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 5/16 x 8 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 2006.0160
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard DeBruycker spent much of his career documenting the lives of fellow working class citizens of Ghent, Belgium. Ghent was a significant center of socialist activity around 1900. Although there is no indication that he ever openly participated in any political cause, his drawings and etchings betray a keen awareness of class inequities. In this print we see a poor quarter of Ghent (the "Patershol" district) with its open sewer, while in the background the medieval castle of the Counts of Flanders looms in stark contast.