# The Game Warden

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## Artwork

- Artist: [KHNOPFF, Fernand](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 151 x 177 cm

## Commentary

The landscapes the Belgian Symbolist Khnopff painted around Fosset in the Ardennes at different times of his life are mostly deserted. This painting, too, seems strangely lifeless, despite the presence of the game warden. Seemingly withdrawn, he is standing stiff as a board in the meadow. As if he had been added to the unspectacular setting with hindsight, he is not even casting a shadow. It shows that the artist was concerned not with the representation of exterior reality but with inner awareness.

## Related artworks

- [After Flaubert. The Temptation of St Anthony \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/after-flaubert-the-temptation-of-st-anthony-detail-rdfeeeefff7361a>)
- [After Flaubert. The Temptation of St Anthony](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/after-flaubert-the-temptation-of-st-anthony-r3ee83b74028bcb>)
- [Hortensia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/hortensia-rcb3966fd9c93bc>)
- [I lock my door upon myself](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/i-lock-my-door-upon-myself-rb49601c132f238>)
- [Listening to Schumann](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/listening-to-schumann-r2cc3fc49796c87>)
- [Mask of a Young Englishwoman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/mask-of-a-young-englishwoman-ra6a6dbd5242438>)
- [Memoires](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/memoires-rff9529d3edeba7>)
- [Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/portrait-of-marguerite-khnopff-r2563cb2668d59b>)
- [Still water \(The Menil pond\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/still-water-the-menil-pond-rc987674fc6cb8f>)
- [The Offering](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/the-offering-r878c2d792eb6fb>)
- [The Sphinx, or The Caresses](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/khnopff-fernand-r267f290cb40519/the-sphinx-or-the-caresses-r8ae2a0fff61d14>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)