Artworks · James Ensor

The Haunted Furniture (Le meuble hanté)

1888 · Etching

plate 5 1/2 x 3 9/16" (14 x 9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Grotesque Musicians

1888 · Etching on zinc; first state; hand-colored with red, blue, green, and yellow watercolor on Arches laid paper

plate: 7 x 9 1/4 in. (17.8 x 23.5 cm) sheet: 18 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (47.6 x 34.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sous-bois à Groenendael

1888 · drypoint on paper

width: 80 cm, height: 117 cm

Rijksmuseum

My Portrait in the Year 1960

1888 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Grand View of Mariakerke

1887 · Etching on zinc in black with plate tone on cream wove paper

Image: 21 × 26.1 cm (8 5/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 27 cm (8 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 31.8 × 36.3 cm (12 9/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tribulations of Saint Anthony

1887 · Oil on canvas

46 3/8 x 66" (117.8 x 167.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Devil's Sabbath

1887 · Etching

plate: 8 5/8 x 10 9/16" (21.9 x 26.9cm); sheet: 12 9/16 x 19 11/16" (31.9 x 50cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Cathedral

1886 · Etching on zinc in black with hand-coloring on cream wove paper

Image: 24.8 × 17.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Plate: 24.5 × 18.7 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 36.2 × 26.9 cm (14 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Fan Handle

1886 · Charcoal and graphite on ivory wove paper

22.7 × 16.8 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait (replica)

1886 · Pen and black ink, with brush and black gouache, on cream wove paper

22.6 × 17 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Cathedral

1886 · Etching on zinc in black on ivory Japanese paper

Image: 23.9 × 17.9 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 18.7 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 23.8 cm (12 13/16 × 9 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frise, The Swedish Botanist

1886 · Etching from a zinc plate, on cream wove paper

Image: 22.6 × 17.1 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Plate: 25 × 19 cm (9 7/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 39.5 × 28.5 cm (15 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Christ Calming the Tempest

1886 · Drypoint and etching from a zinc plate, in warm black ink, on ivory Japanese paper

Image: 15.2 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.); Plate: 16 × 23.8 cm (6 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 34.5 cm (11 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Infernal Cortege

1886 · Etching on zinc in black on cream Japanese paper

Image: 21 × 26 cm (8 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 21.9 × 27 cm (8 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.); Primary support: 27 × 41.5 cm (10 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 28 × 42.7 cm (11 1/16 × 16 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1886 · Etching on copper in brown on cream wove paper

Image: 9.5 × 6.4 cm (3 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.); Plate: 10 × 7 cm (3 15/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 15.9 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Artist’s Grandmother

1886 · Black chalk and charcoal pencil, with touches of graphite, on grayish-ivory wove paper, laid down on white wove paper

21.9 × 16.4 cm (8 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Christ Mocked

1886 · Etching on zinc in black on cream wove paper

Image: 23 × 15.1 cm (9 1/16 × 6 in.); Plate: 24 × 16 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 39.9 × 28.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cathedral

1886 · Etching

plate: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2" (24.8 x 19 cm); sheet: 18 11/16 x 14 1/16" (47.4 x 35.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cathedral

1886 · Etching; second state

plate: 9 1/4 x 7 in. (23.5 x 17.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Cathedral

1886 · etching

Sheet: 31 x 22.4 cm (12 3/16 x 8 13/16 in.); Platemark: 24.2 x 18.8 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Masks and Grotesque Figures

1885 · Black Conté crayon on grayish cream wove paper

21.8 × 29.8 cm (8 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Garden of the Rousseau Family

1885 · oil on fabric

Framed: 96.2 x 82.6 x 9.3 cm (37 7/8 x 32 1/2 x 3 11/16 in.); Unframed: 75.5 x 61 cm (29 3/4 x 24 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Scandalized Masks

1883 · Black chalk and black Conté crayon, with graphite, on ivory wove paper

74.5 × 58.8 cm (29 3/8 × 23 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sheet of Sketches with a Plaster Cast (recto); Shet of Sketches: Profile Heads and Hands (verso)

1882 · Charcoal with black crayon, over traces of incising (recto), and charcoal (verso), on cream wove paper

22.3 × 17.3 cm (8 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Marie

1881 · Charcoal on ivory wove paper, laid down on cream rag board, on stretcher

75.5 × 59.5 cm (29 3/4 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sheet of Sketches: Head in Profile and Other Figures (recto); Sheet of Sketches: Figures and Horses (verso)

1880 · Black chalk with scraping and graphite (recto), and charcoal and graphite (verso), on cream wove paper

21.7 × 27.3 cm (8 9/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Corner of a Table

1880 · Black chalks and charcoal, with pen and brown ink and touches of incising, on cream wove paper, pieced and laid down on white wove paper

22.4 × 32.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Jezebel

1880 · Charcoal on tan wove paper

70.2 × 52 cm (27 11/16 × 20 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Los Caprichos: Se Repulen

1880 · Black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)

15.7 × 22.6 cm (6 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1878 · Charcoal with graphite and touches of black Conté crayon on ivory wove paper

21.7 × 16.9 cm (8 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mantelpiece Still Life

1870 · Black chalk with graphite and touches of black Conté crayon on off-white wove paper

22.4 × 17.1 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Man in a Jacket, Seen from the Back

1870 · Graphite on wove paper

sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (22.2 x 17.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art