Ruelle, Gand (Alley, Ghent)

Jules de Bruycker, artist

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

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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.