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James Ensor

478 works

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Pencil sketch on lined paper of a seated figure with a smaller study of another seated figure in the upper left.

Stage figures

Charcoal sketch of a woman with downcast eyes, with loose overlapping gestural lines and hands above, on aged paper.

Woman with downcast gaze

Pencil sketch of several bent and hunched figures, one in a bonnet, with dense hatched shading on the seated figure at center

Bending figures

1880

Pencil sketch of a bird on a leafy branch with flowering twigs and a rocky base on grey paper.

Bird and dog by branch

Resting woman

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a dark coat, head turned slightly, with loose diagonal hatching behind him.

The Painter Jean François Millet

Charcoal sketch of a city street with a man in a top hat in the foreground and several pedestrians around him.

At dawn

1880

Pencil sketch of a young girl with bangs, head bowed, hands visible below, on pale paper.

Girl

1883

Ink drawing of an elderly bearded man in a fur hat and dark cloak, hands clasped, hatched shading on pale paper.

Old Man with Flowing Beard

1880

Copy

Charcoal sketch of a reclining man with long dark hair in a draped robe, leaning on a dark cushion, by James Ensor.

Chinoiserie, a seated man

1885

Charcoal sketch of two seated men in an interior, one smiling and smoking, the other seen from behind in an armchair.

Two Gentlemen Smoking

Pen drawing of a chaotic battle of small caricatured soldiers with pikes and flags, with a walled town and windmills on the h

The dissolute mercenaries

1892

Pencil portrait of a seated older woman in a dark dress, white collar and bonnet, hands folded in her lap.

Elisabeth Bas

1880

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a ruffled dress, head tilted up with mouth open as if singing, against a dark hatched backgroun

Lady Singing

1880

Pencil sketch of a man with long hair and a wide-brimmed hat, gazing upward with one hand raised near his chest.

The regents of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem. A figure

Pencil sketch of figures struggling with a large animal, one arm raised upward, on grey paper.

Tiger hunt

Red chalk sketch of a balding man in a dark jacket and high collar, looking directly at the viewer.

Fantasia

Pencil sketch sheet showing a standing woman in a long robe, a bearded man, a lion figure, a laughing face and swirling cloud

Chinoiserie

1885

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of a dark sweeping mass with a twisted branch-like form over hatched shading.

Fragment of vase

Pen and ink sketch of hands and a sleeve with a small ornate finial in the lower right corner.

Hands and ornament

Sketchbook page with charcoal head of a woman in bonnet and ruff, and pen sketches of a man carrying a basket.

Head of a woman and figures

Charcoal sketch of three men in overcoats talking together on a street, with loose smudged shading below.

Three gentlemen in conversation

Faint pencil sketch of a seascape with waves, a small sailboat, a rainbow arc and clouds on pale paper.

Marine sketch

Four theatregoers

Pen and ink sketch of a man with curly hair and mustache, head turned, on a plain cream sheet.

Rembrandt's Self Portrait

1885

Charcoal sketch of a mustached man in a dark jacket with loose hatched shading on pale paper.

The Journalist Paul de Cassagnac

Woman seen in profile

Loose pencil sketch of two elderly figures, one holding an open umbrella, drawn with quick hatching on grey paper.

The old people or time

Young woman

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat and coat, arm raised holding a tall staff, with a crate beside him.

Copy after Grévin

The water drinker