Artworks · James Ensor

The Skaters

1889 · Etching and sulphur tint on copper in black on cream Japanese paper

Image: 17 × 23 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 17.8 × 23.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.8 × 28.8 cm (9 × 11 3/8 in.)

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Roman Victory

1889 · Etching with drypoint on copper in black with plate tone on cream wove paper

Image: 17.1 × 23 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 17.7 × 23.8 cm (7 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 40.1 cm (11 3/16 × 15 13/16 in.)

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My Portrait as a Skeleton (Mon portrait squelettisé), state III

1889 · Etching

plate: 4 3/4 x 3 1/8" (12 x 8 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 3/8" (25 x 16.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Roman Victory

1889 · Etching and drypoint

plate: 7 x 9 3/8" (17.8 x 23.8 cm); sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 5/8" (22.6 x 32 cm)

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The Fantastic Ball (Le bal fantastique)

1889 · Etching

plate: 3 1/16 x 4 3/4" (7.7 x 12cm); sheet: 6 5/16 x 9 13/16" (16 x 24.9cm)

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Lust, from The Deadly Sins

1888 · Etching from a copper plate, with hand-coloring, on ivory wove paper

Image: 9.2 × 13.1 cm (3 5/8 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 9.8 × 13.9 cm (3 7/8 × 5 1/2 in.); Sheet, sight: 12.5 × 16.7 cm (4 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

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Pug Patch

1888 · Fabricated charcoal and black chalk with additions in red and yellow colored pencil on moderately thick brown paper

8 × 8 cm (3 3/16 × 3 3/16 in.)

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Footpath at Groenendael

1888 · Etching from a copper plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 9.3 × 13.1 cm (3 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 9.8 × 13.8 cm (3 7/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 23.5 cm (11 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.)

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Devils Thrashing Angels and Archangels

1888 · Etching on copper in black on cream wove paper

Image: 25.1 × 29.4 cm (9 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Plate: 26.3 × 30.7 cm (10 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.); Sheet: 32.1 × 50 cm (12 11/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

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Combat of the Rascals Désir et Rissolé

1888 · Drypoint from a copper plate, on ivory wove paper

Image: 23.1 × 28.2 cm (9 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.); Plate: 23.7 × 28.8 cm (9 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33.7 × 46.6 cm (13 5/16 × 18 3/8 in.)

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The Garden of Love

1888 · Etching with drypoint from a copper plate, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper

Image: 11.2 × 7.4 cm (4 7/16 × 2 15/16 in.); Plate: 11.7 × 8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 29.6 × 13.6 cm (11 11/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

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Extraordinary Musicians

1888 · Etching with drypoint on zinc in black on cream wove (simili-Japan) paper

Image/plate: 17.9 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.1 × 39.7 cm (11 1/8 × 15 11/16 in.)

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The Terrible Archer

1888 · Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 17.7 × 23.9 cm (7 × 9 7/16 in.); Sheet: 28.3 × 39.5 cm (11 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

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The Gendarmes

1888 · Etching and drypoint with plate tone from a zinc plate, on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 18 × 23.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.4 × 32 cm (8 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

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The Assassination

1888 · Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 17.8 × 23.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 28.3 × 39.9 cm (11 3/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

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Wizards in a Squall

1888 · Etching, from a zinc plate, in black ink on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 17.9 × 23.6 cm (7 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.6 × 39.9 cm (11 5/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

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The Cataclysms

1888 · Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper

Image: 17.5 × 23.5 cm (6 15/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Plate: 17.9 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 47.2 cm (13 7/16 × 18 5/8 in.)

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View of Nieuport

1888 · Etching from a copper plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 8.6 × 14.2 cm (3 7/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Plate: 9 × 14.8 cm (3 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 15.8 × 24.6 cm (6 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.)

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View of Ostend in the East

1888 · Etching from a copper plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 8.7 × 13.3 cm (3 7/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 9 × 13.9 cm (3 9/16 × 5 1/2 in.); Sheet: 13.2 × 19.8 cm (5 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

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My Dead Father

1888 · Drypoint from a copper plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 9.1 × 13.2 cm (3 5/8 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 9.9 × 13.8 cm (3 15/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 15.8 × 25 cm (6 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.)

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Wizards in a Squall

1888 · Etching on zinc in black with hand-coloring on buff laid paper

Image/plate: 17.9 × 23.5 cm (7 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 25.1 cm (7 13/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Storm at the Edge of the Wood

1888 · Etching with drypoint from a zinc plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 16.6 × 23.7 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 18 × 25 cm (7 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 32 cm (8 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

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My Portrait in 1960

1888 · Etching on copper in black with plate tone on cream wove paper

Image: 6.3 × 11.3 cm (2 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.); Plate: 7 × 11.9 cm (2 13/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 16 × 25.1 cm (6 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Demons Tormenting Me

1888 · Black chalk with black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper

21.8 × 29.8 cm (8 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

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The Temptation of Christ

1888 · Etching on copper in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 7.4 × 11.4 cm (2 15/16 × 4 1/2 in.); Plate: 8.5 × 12 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20 × 28 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.)

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Devils Thrashing Angels and Archangels

1888 · Etching on copper in black with hand-coloring on buff laid paper

Image: 24.8 × 28.7 cm (9 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Plate: 26.3 × 30.7 cm (10 3/8 × 12 1/8 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 50.8 cm (13 1/8 × 20 in.)

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Study for the Baths of Ostend (recto); Notes for Exhibition Installation (verso)

1888 · Charcoal with traces of blue pencil on cream wove paper

22.5 × 29.8 cm (8 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

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The Main Dock, Ostend

1888 · Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 17.9 × 23.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 29.7 cm (8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)

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Boats Aground

1888 · Etching on zinc in black on cream Japanese paper

Image/plate: 18 × 23.9 cm (7 1/8 × 9 7/16 in.); Sheet: 27.7 × 37.1 cm (10 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.)

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Capture of a Strange Town

1888 · Etching on copper in black on cream wove (simili-Japan) paper

Image: 17.2 × 23.3 cm (6 13/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Plate: 17.9 × 23.9 cm (7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 32.4 cm (11 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Lust (La Luxure) from The Deadly Sins (Les Péchés capitaux)

1888 · One from a portfolio of eight etchings with colored pencil and watercolor additions

composition: 3 9/16 x 5 1/8" (9.1 x 13 cm); plate: 4 3/16 x 5 3/8" (10.7 x 13.6 cm); sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 3/4" (15.9 x 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Deadly Sins (Les Péchés capitaux)

1888 · Portfolio of eight etchings with colored pencil and watercolor additions

dimensions vary, see child records.

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The Assassination

1888 · Etching

Composition and plate: 6 15/16 x 9 3/8" (17.7 x 23.8 cm)

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Masks Confronting Death

1888 · Oil on canvas

32 x 39 1/2" (81.3 x 100.3 cm)

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Combat of the Rascals Désir and Rissolé

1888 · Drypoint

plate: 9 5/16 x 11 1/4" (23.6 x 28.6cm); sheet: 13 1/8 x 18 1/16" (33.3 x 45.9cm)

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House on the Boulevard Anspach

1888 · Etching and drypoint

plate: 5 1/2 x 3 9/16" (14 x 9 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 5/16" (25 x 16 cm)

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The Cataclysms

1888 · Etching, colored by hand with watercolor

Plate 7 x 9 3/8" (17.9 x 23.7 cm) Sheet (surface) 13 1/4 x 15 1/4" (33.8 x 38.8 cm) Sheet (incl. folds) 13 1/ 4 x 20 5/8" (33.8 x 52.1 cm)

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The Gendarmes (Les Gendarmes), state IV

1888 · Etching with gouache additions

plate: 7 x 9 3/8" (17.8 x 23.8 cm); sheet: 13 3/8 x 18 3/4" (34 x 47.6 cm)

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The Assassination

1888 · Etching with gouache, colored pencil, and crayon additions

plate: 6 15/16 x 9 5/16" (17.7 x 23.7 cm); sheet: 13 1/16 x 17 5/8" (33.2 x 44.8 cm)

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Flaying a Convict

1888 · Etching

Plate 5 1/2 x 4" (14.0 x 10.2 cm) Comp. 5 1/4 x 3 5/8" (13.2 x 9.3 cm)

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The Cataclysms (Les cataclysmes)

1888 · Etching

plate: 7 1/16 x 9 3/8" (18 x 23.8cm); sheet: 8 7/8 x 12 1/2" (22.5 x 31.7cm)

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The Terrible Archer (L'archer terrible)

1888 · Etching

plate: 7 x 9 7/16" (17.8 x 24cm); sheet: 10 1/4 x 16 5/16" (26 x 41.5cm)

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Stars in the Cemetery

1888 · Etching

plate: 5 1/2 × 7 1/16" (14 × 18 cm); sheet: 9 3/8 × 12 1/8" (23.8 × 30.8 cm)

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Capture of a Strange Town (Prise d'une ville étrange)

1888 · Etching

composition: 6 3/4 x 9 1/8" (17.2 x 23.2 cm); plate: 7 1/16 x 9 3/8" (17.9 x 23.8 cm); sheet: 14 x 18 7/8" (35.6 x 47.9 cm)

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The Winds (Les Vents)

1888 · Etching

plate: 7 1/16 x 9 3/8" (17.9 x 23.8cm); sheet: 14 1/4 x 18 13/16" (36.2 x 47.8cm)

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Peculiar Insects, state V

1888 · Drypoint

composition: 4 7/16 × 6 1/8" (11.3 × 15.5 cm); plate: 4 5/8 × 6 1/4" (11.8 × 15.9 cm); sheet: 7 3/4 × 11 1/4" (19.7 × 28.5 cm)

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Devils Thrashing Angels and Archangels

1888 · Etching

Plate 10 3/8 x 12 1/8" (26.3 x 30.7 cm) Sheet 12 5/8 x 19 3/4" (32.0 x 50.2 cm)

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Small Bizarre Figures, state II

1888 · Etching

composition: 5 3/16 x 3 5/8" (13.2 x 9.2 cm); plate: 5 3/8 x 3 7/8" (13.7 x 9.8 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 5/16" (25 x 16 cm)

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