# Hôtel Hankar: façade [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HANKAR, Paul]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Hankar's first independent work was his own house in the Rue Defacqz, Brussels, a sober structure in brick with bluestone dressings and horizontal bands, decorated with wrought-iron work and a monochrome mural by the painter Adolphe Crespin \(1859-1944\). Unlike the flowing, more flamboyant style of Horta's earliest private residences, Hankar's house is a model of formal restraint, showing a Japanese influence that had been disseminated by his friend the Belgian writer Jules Destrée's Imagerie japonaise \(1888\). ## Related artworks - [Hôtel Ciamberlani: façade]() - [Hôtel Ciamberlani: interior]() - [Hôtel Hankar: façade \(detail\)]() - [Niguet's Shirt Shop]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()