The Intrigue

The Intrigue: Introduction

Eleven faces seem to arrive at once. A top hat rises near the centre; flowers, feathers and veils flare around it; gloved hands point, grip and display. James Ensor brings the gathering so close that there is almost no room behind it. The figures do not enter a scene so much as crowd against the viewer. Their masks promise exaggerated expression, yet every grin makes the event harder to explain.^[1]

That resistance is the subject of The Intrigue. Painted in 1890, it offers the visual cues of a social ritual without confirming which ritual is underway. A wedding procession, carnival encounter and public humiliation all remain possible. Colour and gesture make the group vividly legible as a spectacle, while the masks deny the stable identities that would settle its plot.^[1][2]

At a Glance

• ArtistJames Ensor (1860–1949).^[4]
• Date and medium1890, oil on canvas.^[1]
• Dimensions89.5 × 149 cm, a broad horizontal format.^[1]
• CollectionRoyal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), inventory 1856.^[1]
• SubjectAn ambiguous half-length gathering of masked and costumed figures, possibly connected with carnival, marriage or derision.^[1][2]
• Identity cautionThis is the Antwerp painting of 1890, not the separate 1911 Intrigue in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.^[1][5]

James Ensor in context

Works

188018841888189218961900

The Oyster Eater

1882

Self-Portrait with Flowered Hat

c. 1885–88

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

1887–88

Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889

1888

Masks Confronting Death

1888

Astonishment of the Mask Wouse

1889

The Intrigue

1890

Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring

1891

Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals

1896

Contents

1. Introduction
2. A Crowd at Arm’s Length
3. Looking Figure by Figure
4. Gesture as a Chain of Attention
5. Wedding, Carnival or Mockery?
6. Masks as Props and Painted Faces
7. Half-Length Theatre and the Rubens Comparison
8. Colour, Light and Nervous Brushwork
9. One Masquerade Among Several
10. Collection History and Reputation

A Crowd at Arm’s Length

At nearly a metre high and almost a metre and a half wide, The Intrigue has the reach of a group portrait but refuses that genre’s order. Its horizontal shape accommodates a procession of heads and shoulders, yet Ensor gives the figures no stable architectural setting. Pale open areas separate some silhouettes, while hats, faces and fabric fill most of the field. The result is immediate rather than panoramic: viewers meet the assembly at bodily range.^[1]

That closeness turns looking into social pressure. The eye searches for a host, guest or principal actor, but the composition supplies several rival centres. The tall hat marks the man near the middle. The woman beside him presents or holds him while carrying a small bunch of flowers. A pointing hand pulls attention toward the pair. Elsewhere, a skull and mask-faces interrupt any ordinary reading of the group. Each clue feels emphatic; none is decisive.^[1][3]

The scale also changes the masks. They are not tiny carnival details embedded in a distant street. Several approach the size of real heads, making painted objects confront us as if they were people. This is one reason the canvas can feel comic and threatening in the same instant.

Looking Figure by Figure

The central man seems to withdraw rather than lead. His top hat is upright, but his face sinks toward the high collar of his coat. KMSKA describes him as the likely target of the surrounding derision. The mask does not reveal whether he is ashamed, frightened or merely passive; instead, his contracted posture makes him look captured by the attention around him.^[1][2]

Beside him, a flowered woman raises the strongest question. Her flowers and her physical claim on the man can suggest a bridal role, and her other hand appears to present a conquest. Yet “bride” remains an interpretation, not a secure identity. Her wide, fixed expression could signal triumph, foolishness or the immobility of a prop. Ensor gives the gesture narrative force without giving the figure a verifiable name.^[2][3]

The pointing woman at the right intensifies the accusation. Over her shoulder she carries a small form that may be a doll. KMSKA deliberately asks whether it could instead evoke a dead child, but the museum does not close the question, and neither should the viewer.^[3] The hand, not the object, is the clearest statement: its extended finger turns looking into judgement.

Around these figures, exaggerated mouths and staring eyes create a chorus without speech. A skull with a loose lower jaw adds a note of mortality, but even it behaves like another spectator. No face offers the calm neutrality needed to adjudicate the encounter. The group looks together while failing to share one knowable emotion.

Gesture as a Chain of Attention

Hands organise the picture more reliably than faces. The central woman’s raised arm appears to introduce the man, making him an exhibit within the group. From the right, the pointing finger names him again without telling us the charge. Other hands emerge between clothing and heads, repeating the sensation that speech has been replaced by demonstration. KMSKA identifies this interplay of facial expression and hand gesture as a defining feature of the arrangement.^[2]

Ensor’s half-length framing gives those hands unusual authority. Because legs and much of the setting are excluded, a finger can carry as much visual weight as a head. Gestures cross the boundaries between figures and turn separate bodies into a single apparatus of attention. The central man’s withdrawal is therefore not private: the surrounding poses continually return him to public view.

Masks sharpen the contradiction. Their expressions are immobile, predetermined by the props, while hands suggest live action unfolding in time. A grin cannot soften or answer a question, but a pointing hand implies that an accusation has just been made. The viewer feels an event taking place even though the faces cannot register its changing consequences.

This chain eventually reaches outside the group. Figures point and stare across the shallow space where a conventional painting might offer distance. We occupy the position of another witness, close enough to join the scrutiny but unable to discover its cause. Ensor thereby makes uncertainty participatory: looking at the target risks resembling the crowd that has already surrounded him.

Wedding, Carnival or Mockery?

Flowers, the linked central pair and the surrounding company make a wedding procession plausible. Some art historians have consequently read the picture as Ensor’s hostile view of marriage. It has also been claimed that the scene refers to the failed marriage of his younger sister, Mitche. KMSKA’s chronology makes that specific story untenable: the canvas is securely dated 1890, whereas Mitche met her future husband in 1891 and the marriage failed later.^[2]

The title opens another route. In the carnival culture of some Belgian cities, an “intrigue” could be an occasion for masked participants to direct uninhibited slander at someone. That practice fits the pointing, grimaces and man retreating into his coat. Still, it does not convert the painting into a documentary record of one named event. Ensor could draw on a recognisable social game while inventing its particular cast.^[2]

Carnival itself is therefore more than festive background. Disguise permits a person to accuse while evading accountability. A fixed mask can make an insult look permanent, even as it prevents us from knowing the wearer. The canvas may stage that imbalance: one man is displayed and judged, but those around him are protected by painted faces.

These alternatives can coexist. The company could resemble wedding guests and carnival revellers because weddings themselves invite public performance, jokes and scrutiny. Ensor turns those shared conventions into uncertainty. The more confidently the figures gesture, the less confidently we can state what has happened.

Masks as Props and Painted Faces

Ensor knew carnival masks as physical things. His family’s Ostend souvenir business sold them, and masks visible in old studio photographs recur in his art. KMSKA notes that he may have staged models with real masks, costumes and accessories when constructing scenes like this one. That working method would explain why faces can seem simultaneously animate and object-like.^[3][6]

The distinction matters. A painted mask is not the same as a caricatured human face, though Ensor lets the two categories blur. A prop has hard edges, fixed holes and an expression manufactured in advance. Once fitted to a body or placed among clothing, it acquires posture and social agency. The fuller guide to Ensor’s masks, carnival and satire traces how those objects shift between studio still life, disguise, comedy and exposure.^[6]

In The Intrigue, masks appear to reveal rather than conceal character, but even that familiar formulation needs care. They expose types—mockery, vanity, aggression, vacancy—not private psychological truth. Ensor makes social behaviour conspicuous while keeping individual identity unavailable.

Half-Length Theatre and the Rubens Comparison

The crowded half-length arrangement is one of the painting’s most consequential choices. KMSKA observes that dynamic groups framed at this height are unusual in nineteenth-century painting. Ensor had already used a related scheme in his 1889 print Caesar’s Denarius. For that print and The Intrigue, he appears to have responded to a reproduction of Rubens’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery.^[2]

Rubens’s precedent offered a way to bind multiple faces and hands into one dramatic front. Ensor strips away much of the narrative scaffolding but keeps the pressure of accusation. The comparison may extend to theme: in the biblical episode, a group of accusers condemns adultery, and KMSKA suggests that their hypocrisy could have interested Ensor. This remains a possibility rather than a proven programme.^[2]

The guide to Ensor’s paintings shows how such borrowing works across his practice. He does not imitate an old master’s finish. He extracts a compositional engine—linked heads, thrusting hands, a judged figure—and drives it with modern masks and abrasive colour.

Colour, Light and Nervous Brushwork

If the subject is uncertain, the colour is assertive. Red, blue, yellow, green and white collide in abrupt transitions. Headgear and fabric break the mass into bright intervals, while paler grounds intensify the figures rather than settling them into deep space. KMSKA connects these contrasts with Ensor’s use of relatively pure colour and the lessons he took from French Impressionism, but the effect here is far removed from detached optical study.^[3]

Rough, nervous brushwork keeps surfaces active. Colour does not simply fill a previously defined costume; it helps a sleeve lunge, a hat flare or a face jump forward. Light and pigment become agents of social disturbance. The viewer understands the scene through chromatic shocks before identifying individual forms.

This helps explain why masks were so productive for Ensor. Their sharp expressions invited equally sharp transitions. The mask could be a studio object, a human substitute and a pretext for painting colour at maximum intensity—all while maintaining the picture’s unease.^[3]

One Masquerade Among Several

The Intrigue belongs to the extraordinary sequence in which masks, skeletons and grotesque assemblies took leading roles in Ensor’s art from the late 1880s into the early 1890s.^[1][4] Comparison shows that he did not use one repeated formula.

In Masks Confronting Death of 1888, a pale figure of Death occupies the centre of an audience of elaborate masks; the confrontation grows from an arrangement with the density of a still life.^[7] Astonishment of the Mask Wouse of 1889 distributes masks, clothing and instruments across an attic-like floor, guarding even the identity of the “Wouse” in its title.^[8] The Intrigue instead brings half-length bodies together as a compact social tribunal.

The following year, Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring reduced macabre conflict to a small panel and a ridiculous tug of war.^[9] On the opposite scale, Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 expands masquerade into a monumental public procession where an individual can nearly vanish within the crowd.^[10] Seen among these works, The Intrigue is distinctive for making social accusation intimate.

The sequence also belongs within Ensor’s wider development, not outside it. The biography of James Ensor places the masquerades beside his Brussels networks, Ostend life and exhibiting activity. They are imaginative constructions made by an artist engaged with audiences and institutions, not unmediated visions from isolation.^[4][11]

Collection History and Reputation

The painting once belonged to Ernest Rousseau in Brussels. In 1921 a named group of museum supporters donated it to KMSKA, where it carries inventory number 1856. The museum now describes The Intrigue as one of Ensor’s best-known and most frequently reproduced works, and it remains a highlight of the institution’s exceptional Ensor holdings.^[1][2][4]

Reproduction may have made its masks familiar, but familiarity should not make the narrative look solved. The work’s importance lies precisely in how strongly it communicates an event while withholding the event’s final explanation.

Researched works directory

This searchable evidence census was assembled from public museum records and a reproducible Wikidata snapshot. It is not a catalogue raisonné, a claim to complete oeuvre coverage, or a substitute for Xavier Tricot's printed catalogue, which was not consulted for this directory.

1515 artworks

Search artworks Medium All media Drawing Painting Reset

Name	Date	Medium
1. Decor (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
10. Hélio (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1911–1929	Print
11. Murmuramis (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1912–1929	Print
12. Grimacet, Craco-Cigaret... (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
13.-14. Popofigue & Germina (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1912–1929	Print
15. Puerilla & Pollen (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1912–1929	Print
16. Muzikanten II (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
17. Vuurwerkboeket (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
18. De schelpen (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
19. Het Luminisme - het Kubisme - de Gravure (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1912–1929	Print
2. Brutonne (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1911–1929	Print
20. Spar - Huisje uit Neurenberg - Racket (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1911–1929	Print
21. Duivel - Houten soldaat - Pop (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1912–1929	Print
22. Cimbaalspelers (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1917–1929	Print
3. Grognelet (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
3 studies van een dame met parasol	1880	Drawing
4. Miamia (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
5. De bedelares (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
6. Fifrelin (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
7. Muzikanten (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1911–1929	Print
8. Pituiton met de lange neus (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1929	Print
9. Corylopsis (uit: La Gamme d'Amour)	1911–1929	Print
A Colourist	1880	Painting
A field with a working man and woman	Date unknown	Drawing
A Gust of Wind at the Edge of the Forest (Coup de vent a la lisiere)	1888	Print
A l'aube	1880	Drawing
A Man and a Woman	Date unknown	Drawing
A Path in a Wood	1879	Painting
Aanbidding door de koningen	1921	Print
Aanstormend leger	Date unknown	Drawing
Aantekeningen van James Ensor	Date unknown	Drawing
Acacia	1888	Print
Academic study of a nude	Date unknown	Drawing
Accacia	Date unknown	Drawing
Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise	1887	Painting
Adoration des Bergers	1888	Print
Affiche van "Salon des Cent", Parijs	1888–1898	Print
Affiche van "Salon des Cent", Parijs	1898	Print
Affiche voor het carnaval van Oostende	1931	Print
After the storm	1880	Painting
Afternoon in Ostend	1881	Painting
Album Containing Drawings and Illustrated Letters	1883	Drawing
Algérienne à la cruche	Date unknown	Drawing
Alimentation doctrinaire	1889	Print
Anatomische studie en twee figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Anger	1904	Print
Anger (La colere)	1904	Print
Antiek pistool	Date unknown	Drawing
Antieke kop	1870	Drawing
Arabische ruiter door leeuw aangevallen	1880	Drawing
Arabische ruiter en paard	Date unknown	Drawing
Arabische ruiter in galop	Date unknown	Drawing
Arms and Hands	Date unknown	Drawing
Astonishment of the Mask Wouse	1889	Painting
Au conservatoire	1902	Painting
Auto-da-fe	1893	Print
Autoportrait auprès d'une lampe	1886	Print
Autumn Flowers	1938	Painting
Avarice	1904	Print
Avarice (L'avarice)	1904	Print
Azaleas	1925	Painting
Baby	Date unknown	Drawing
Baby en arm	1870	Drawing
Bacchanal	1877	Painting
Back of a Chair	1880	Painting
Badkoets, bruggetje en kleine marine	Date unknown	Drawing
Bal masqué à la Monnaie	Date unknown	Drawing
Ballet	1921	Print
Balletscène	1900	Drawing
Baptism of the Masks	1891	Painting
Baron James Ensor, his bad angel, his coat of arms	1934	Painting
Barques échouées	1888	Print
Bataille des éperons d'or	1895	Print
Bataille entre llion et tigre	1880	Drawing
Bateaux à vapeur, PK.MP.04898	1889	Print
Bateaux à vapeur, PK.MP.04899	1889	Print
Bathers (Curved and Wavy Lines)	1916	Painting
Bathing-hut	1876	Painting
Battle of the beggars Désir and Rissolé	1888	Print
Battle of the Beggars Desir and Rissole (Combat des pouilleux Desir et Rissole)	1888	Print
Battle of the Golden Spurs	1890	Print
Battle of the Golden Spurs	1895	Print
Battle of the Golden Spurs	1897	Print
Baviaan	Date unknown	Drawing
Beach at La Panne	1904	Print
Beached Boats	1888	Print
Bed met troonhemel	Date unknown	Drawing
Bedkast	Date unknown	Drawing
Beeldje op console	Date unknown	Drawing
Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House	1880	Drawing
Bejaarde man	Date unknown	Drawing
Belgium in the Nineteenth Century	Date unknown	Drawing
Belgium in the XIXth Century	1889	Print
Berceuse de mon ballet: La gamme d'amour	Date unknown	Drawing
Bergpad	Date unknown	Drawing
Bibelots	1935	Painting
Biblical Scene	1877	Painting
Bijbelse scènes, uitgeveegd	1870	Drawing
Biljartspelende geraamten	1903	Drawing
Bloem	Date unknown	Drawing
Bloemen en vlinders	1889	Painting
Blue Flask and Chicken	1925	Painting
Boats Aground	1888	Print
Boer met paardenspan en Marie Colombier	Date unknown	Drawing
Bolhoed en schoen	1880	Drawing
Bomen	Date unknown	Drawing
Bootje en figuur	1880	Drawing
Bosgezicht in Groenendaal	1888	Print
Bosgezicht te Groenendaal	1888	Print
Bosje	1888	Print
Bosrand	1878	Drawing
Boulevard d'Iseghem, Ostende	1889	Print
Boulevard Van Iseghem, Ostend	1889	Print
Bouquet d'arbres, MPM.V.V.261.003	1888	Print
Bouquet d'arbres (PK.MP.04890)	1888	Print
Bouquet d'arbres, PK.MP.04891	1888	Print
Breakwater	1887	Print
Breiende vrouw en hondje	Date unknown	Drawing
Bronze pot with Apparitions	1880	Drawing
Bruggetje (?)	1889	Drawing
Bust	1887	Print
Buste	1887	Print
Buste (PK.MP.01223)	1887	Print
Cabbages	1890	Painting
Caesar's Denarius	1888	Print
Café-concert à Munich	1880	Drawing
Calvarie	1921	Print
Canal with Barges	1881	Painting
Candelabra and Vase	1888	Print
Candélabre et vase	1888	Print
Capture of a Strange Town	1888	Print
Carnet met tekeningen	1880	Drawing
Carnet met tekeningen	Date unknown	Drawing
Carnival	1930	Painting
Carnival in Flanders	1929	Painting
Carnival in Flanders (Zürich)	1927	Painting
Carnival on the beach	1887	Painting
Chaloupes	1888	Print
Chaumiéres à Slykens	1888	Print
Chère morte	Date unknown	Drawing
Child with Doll	1884	Painting
Children at their Morning Toilet	1886	Painting
Chimaera	1888	Print
Chimère	1888	Print
Chinese vaas en figuren	1880	Drawing
Chinoiserie	1885	Drawing
Chinoiserie, drie vogels	Date unknown	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een demon	1885–1886	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een krijger	1885	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een man	1885	Painting
Chinoiserie, een ooievaar	Date unknown	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een oude vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een roofvogel	Date unknown	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een vogel	Date unknown	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een vrouw	1885	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een zittende man	1885	Drawing
Chinoiserie, een zittende man in driekwart rugzicht	1885	Drawing
Chinoiserie, tafereel	1884	Drawing
Chinoiserie, twee figuren	1885	Drawing
Chinoiseries	1907	Painting
Chinoiseries	1920	Painting
Chinoiseries with fans	1880	Painting
Christ agonisant tourmenté par les démons	1895	Print
Christ among the Beggards	1895	Print
Christ and the Beggars	1895	Print
Christ and the Beggars (Le Christ aux mendiants)	1895	Print
Christ Calming the Storm	1886	Print
Christ Calming The Tempest	1886	Print
Christ calming the water	1891	Painting
Christ calming the water	1906	Painting
Christ Descending into Hell	1895	Print
Christ Descending into Hell	Date unknown	Print
Christ Descending to Hell	1895	Drawing
Christ in Agony Tormented by Demons	1895	Print
Christ in Hell (Le Christ aux enfers)	1895	Print
Christ in the Boat	1898	Print
Christ insulted	1886	Print
Christ mocked	1880	Drawing
Christ Mocked	1886	Print
Christ Orchard	1886	Print
Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889	1888	Painting
Christ's Entry into Jerusalem	1885	Drawing
Christ shown to the People	1885	Drawing
Christ shown to the People and Christ's Entry into Jerusalem	1887	Drawing
Christ Tormented by Demons	1895	Print
Christ Walking on Water	1883	Painting
Christ with the Lame	1880	Painting
Christus bedaart de storm	1921	Print
Christus bij de bedelaars	1895	Print
Christus daalt neer in de hel	1895	Print
Christus door duivels gekweld	1895	Print
Christus drijft de duivel uit het het lichaam aan een bezetene	1921	Print
Christus en de Engelen	1921	Print
Christus en de schriftgeleerden	1921	Print
Christus en Romeinse soldaten	1886	Drawing
Christus in de schuit	1898	Print
Christus op de knieën van zijn moeder	1921	Print
Christus tussen de moordenaars	1921	Print
Christus voor zijn rechters	1921	Print
Christus wandelt op de golven	1921	Print
Circassische ruiters	Date unknown	Drawing
Clams and crustaceans	1889	Painting
Clownish figures on a beach	Date unknown	Drawing
Clump of Trees	1888	Print
Colère	1904	Print
Combat des pouilleux Désir et Rissolé	1888	Print
Combat of the Rascals Désir and Rissolé	1888	Print
Combat of The Rascals Désir et Rissolé	1888	Print
Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved)	1917	Painting
Contes d'Horace van Offel - Le diable au moulin	1934	Print
Copy after Honoré Daumier	Date unknown	Drawing
Cortège infernal	Date unknown	Print
Cottages	1888	Print
Couple in open landau	1883	Drawing
Cranes et masques	1888	Print
Croquis	Date unknown	Drawing
Crypte	1888	Print
Cymbalists	1911	Print
Daffodils, Lilacs and Violets	1893	Painting
Dahlias	1932	Painting
Daken	Date unknown	Drawing
Dame	Date unknown	Drawing
Dame aan cafétafel	1880	Drawing
Dame en meisje	Date unknown	Drawing
Dame en twee heren	Date unknown	Drawing
Dance in the Clearing (from the series Les Opalines)	1913	Print
Daniel in the Lion's Den	1880	Drawing
Dansend paar	Date unknown	Drawing
Dansers en muzikanten	1919	Drawing
De aanbidding der herders	1888	Print
De afgunst	1903–1904	Print
De Amsterdamse lakenhandelaar Nicolaas van Bambeek	1880	Drawing
De baden van Oostende	1891	Drawing
De baden van Oostende	1899	Print
De bekoring van Christus	1888	Print
De bergrede [verso: Studie van drie staande en een zittende figuur]	Date unknown	Drawing
De besnijdenis	1921	Print
De bespotting van Christus	1921	Print
De boeteprocessie van Veurne	1930	Drawing
De boomgaard	1886	Print
De boomgaard	1900	Print
De briefschrijfster (Ensors zuster)	1883	Drawing
De brug van het bos te Oostende	1889	Print
De brug van Six	Date unknown	Drawing
De bruiloft van Kana	1913	Drawing
De cataclysmen	1888	Print
De componist Hector Berlioz	Date unknown	Drawing
De crypte	1888	Print
De daken van Oostende	1900	Print
De dood achtervolgt de mensenkudde	1896	Print
De duivels Dzitts en Hihanox leiden Christus naar de hel	1895	Print
De eerste stapjes	1880	Drawing
De engel des verderfs	1889	Print
De engelen vereeren Maria	1921	Print
De Franse politicus François Barbé Marbois	Date unknown	Drawing
De gefopte boeren	1893	Drawing
De gendarmes	1888	Print
De geseling	1921	Print
De gevilde	1888	Print
De gierigheid	1903–1904	Print
De gierigheid	1904	Print
De goede rechters	1894	Print
De gramschap	1903	Print
De gramschap	1903–1904	Print
De grap van de olifant	1888	Drawing
De gulzigheid	1903–1904	Print
De Heilige Geest verlicht de apostelen	1921	Print
De herstellende zieke	Date unknown	Drawing
De honden	1894	Drawing
De hoofdzonden gedomineerd door de Dood	1903–1904	Print
De hoogmoed	1903–1904	Print
De intocht van Christus te Brussel	1898	Print
De kathedraal	1896	Print
De kleine bron en andere figuren	1880	Drawing
De kleine schuiten	1894	Print
De knaap	1880	Drawing
De kokette dood (maskers)	1922	Print
De kruisafneming	1921	Print
De Kruisafneming	Date unknown	Painting
De kruisiging	1921	Print
De kus van Judas	1921	Print
De luiheid	1902	Print
De luiheid [De moeder van de kunstenaar]	1888	Drawing
De minnetuin	1888	Print
De molen van Mariakerke	1889	Print
De molenduivel	1934	Print
De Moord	1888	Print
De moord op de onnozele kinderen	1921	Print
De ontucht	1888	Print
De Oostendse Visser	1900	Drawing
De oude schelmen	1895	Print
De oudjes of de tijd	Date unknown	Drawing
De pakjesdragers	1880	Drawing
De pijproker, profiel en handen	1880	Drawing
De poel met populieren	1889	Print
De processie van Gistel	1934	Print
De putruimer	1896	Print
De regenten van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Een figuur	Date unknown	Drawing
De regenten van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Twee figuren	1880	Drawing
De Rembrandtplaats te Amsterdam	1890	Drawing
De Romeinse zegetocht	1890	Print
De roof der Sabijnse maagden	Date unknown	Drawing
De schaduw op het huis	1933	Print
De schilder Alfred William Finch - en studie met flessen	1880	Drawing
De slaapster	1887	Print
De Slag der Gulden Sporen	1895	Print
De slechte geneesheren	1895	Print
De soldenier	Date unknown	Drawing
De spelers	1895	Print
De terugkeer van de kalvarieberg	1921	Print
De tuin van liefde	Date unknown	Painting
De Turkse school is uit	Date unknown	Drawing
De Van Iseghemlaan in Oostende	1889	Print
De Van Iseghemlaan in Oostende, schrijvende man (recto)	1880	Drawing
De vechtersbazen	1896	Print
De vermenigvuldiging van de vissen	1891	Print
De verschrikkelijke boogschutter	1888	Print
De verzoeking van de Heilige Antonius	1930	Drawing
De visser	1880	Drawing
De vissers (De ellendelingen)	1932	Print
De waterdrinker	Date unknown	Drawing
De wonderbare visvangst	1921	Print
De wraak van Hop-Frog	1898	Print
De zieke vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
De zielenmissen voor B. de Haze	Date unknown	Drawing
De zilverling van Caesar	1888	Print
De zilverling van Caesar	1921	Print
De zoom van het bosje te Oostende	1888	Print
De zuster van Ensor aan het klavier	Date unknown	Drawing
Death and the Masks	1897	Painting
Death Chasing the Flock of Mortals	1896	Print
Death Dominating the Deadly Sins (Les Peches capitaux domines par la mort): front.	1904	Print
Delicacies	1938	Painting
Demons Teasing Me	1895	Print
Demons Teasing Me: Poster for the James Ensor Exhibition at the Salon des Cent in Paris	1898	Print
Demons Torment Me (Les Démons me turlupinant)	1898	Print
Der Tod und der Arzt beim Grabstein	1880	Drawing
Des filles de Sparte luttant	Date unknown	Drawing
Detail van afsluiting	1900	Drawing
Detail van een kapstok	Date unknown	Drawing
Deux régentes	1880	Drawing
Devils Thrashing Angels and Archangels	1888	Print
Devils Trashing Angels and Archangels	1888	Print
Diable rossant anges et archanges	1888	Drawing
Diables rossant anges et archanges	1888	Print
Diables rossant anges et archanges	1889	Print
Die Löwenjagd	1880	Drawing
Dienstbode (recto)	1880	Drawing
Dining single man	1880	Drawing
Diploma voor het X° Landjuweel	1933	Print
Dish, bottles and candlestick	Date unknown	Drawing
Doctrinaire voeding	1889	Print
Doctrinal Nourishment	1889	Print
Dode monnik	Date unknown	Drawing
Don Quichotte	1870	Drawing
Don Quichotte	1884	Drawing
Don Quichotte	Date unknown	Drawing
Don Quichotte en 4 gezichten	1870	Drawing
Don Quichotte en hoofd	Date unknown	Drawing
Don Quichotte en paardekop	Date unknown	Drawing
Doodshoofden en Willy Finch in de duinen (recto)	1888	Drawing
Doordruk van 2709/33	Date unknown	Print
Dorpskerk omringd door bomen	Date unknown	Drawing
Double Self Portrait	1900	Drawing
Draaitrap en figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Dramatische scène	1883	Drawing
Drie figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie heren in gesprek	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie hollandse boerinnetjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie honden	1880	Drawing
Drie insekten	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie klimmende heren en koppen	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie koppen van wilde dieren	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie varkenskoppen	Date unknown	Drawing
Drie zeilboten en een windmolen	1920	Drawing
Duingras	Date unknown	Drawing
Duivels die mij sarren	1895	Print
Duivels die mij sarren	1898	Print
Duivels rossen engelen en aartsengelen af	1888	Print
Dunes	1877	Painting
Dunes	1883	Painting
Edelman	Date unknown	Drawing
Edge of the Forest in Ostend (La lisiere du petit bois, Ostende)	1887	Print
Edge of the Little Wood	1888	Print
Edge of the Little Wood Ostend	1888	Print
Een ongeval	Date unknown	Drawing
Een Zeeuws paardengespan	Date unknown	Drawing
Effect of Light	1935	Painting
Elias Magnus Fries, the Swedish Mycologist	1886	Print
Elisabeth Bas	1880	Drawing
Embleem	Date unknown	Drawing
Ensor and Leman discussing painting	1890	Painting
Ensor at his Easel	1890	Painting
Ensor at the Harmonium	1933	Painting
Ensor en Generaal Leman	1890	Drawing
Ensor en zijn muze	1937	Drawing
Ensors slapende moeder en figuren	1880	Drawing
Ensors slapende zuster en figuren	1880	Drawing
Envie	1904	Print
Envy	1904	Print
Envy (L'envie)	1904	Print
Ernest Rousseau	1887	Print
Estacade, PK.MP.04903	1887	Print
Estacade, PK.MP.04904	1887	Print
Execution by Garrote	Date unknown	Drawing
Extraordinary Musicians	1888	Print
Fall of the Rebel Angels	1889	Painting
Fans and Fabrics	1881	Painting
Fantasia	Date unknown	Drawing
Fantastische muzikanten	1888	Print
Fantastische vogel	Date unknown	Drawing
Farm at Leffinghe	1889	Print
Feeding of the Five Thousand (La multiplication des poissons)	1891	Print
Femme assise vue de dos	Date unknown	Drawing
Femme et scène de taverne	Date unknown	Drawing
Ferme à Leffinge	1889	Print
Figuren	1870	Drawing
Figuren	1880	Drawing
Figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Figuren en hoofden	1870	Drawing
Figuren en ringkan (recto)	1880	Drawing
Figuren en slijpsteen	Date unknown	Drawing
Figuren en tekst	Date unknown	Drawing
Figuren uit de liefdestuin	Date unknown	Drawing
Figuren (verso)	1880	Drawing
Figures in Front of a Poster of La Gamme d’amour (after The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889)	1925	Painting
Figuur	Date unknown	Drawing
Figuur en fornuis met kookpotten	1880	Drawing
Figuur op de rug gezien	Date unknown	Drawing
Fish and Shells	1895	Painting
Fisher couple	1874	Painting
Fisherman falling in the water	1880	Drawing
Fisherman of Ostend	1900	Print
Fisherwoman	1882	Painting
Fishing-Boats	1888	Print
Flaying a Convict	1888	Print
Flemish Farm	1888	Print
Fles (recto)	1888	Drawing
Floral Still Life with Skulls	1908	Painting
Floretten	1880	Drawing
Flowers	1892	Painting
Flowers and blue vase	1909	Painting
Flowers and Chinese Vases	1896	Painting
Flowers and fruit	1938	Painting
Flowers and Masks	1929	Painting
Flowers and Vegetables	1896	Painting
Flowers in a Vase	Date unknown	Drawing
Footpath at Groenendael	1888	Print
Forest at Groenendael	1888	Print
Fort Napoleon	1876	Painting
Fort Wellington	1876	Painting
Fragment van een boom, stilleven op een barokke tafel, kruik en figuren (verso)	1880	Drawing
Fragment van raam met opgetrokken overgordijn	Date unknown	Drawing
Fragment van vaas	Date unknown	Drawing
Fridolin and Gragapança of Yperdamme	1895	Print
Fridolin and Grapapança of Yperdamme	1895	Print
Fridolin en Gragapança van Yperdamme	1895	Print
Fridolin et Gragapanca d'Yperdamme	1895	Print
Fries met monstertjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Frise, The Swedish Botanist	1886	Print
Frolics of Tenuous Puppets Transformed into Flowers (from the series Les Opalines)	1913	Print
Frontispice	1921	Print
Frontispice	Date unknown	Print
Frontispice (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
Gathering in a Park	1936	Painting
Gathering in a Park (Assemblee dans un parc)	1891	Print
Gebonden album "La Gamme d'Amour	1912–1929	Print
Gebonden album "Taferelen uit het leven van Christus	1921	Print
Geërgerde maskers	1895	Print
Gefolterde (?)	Date unknown	Drawing
Gehurkte man met petroleumbus	Date unknown	Drawing
Geïntrigeerde maskers	1904	Print
Genretafereel	Date unknown	Drawing
Genretafereel en ornament	Date unknown	Drawing
Geraamte dat zich wil verwarmen	Date unknown	Drawing
Geraamten die zich willen warmen	1895	Print
Gestrande schuiten	1888	Print
Gevallen Arabische ruiter met steigerend paard	Date unknown	Drawing
Gevel	Date unknown	Drawing
Gezicht op de haven van Oostende	1888	Print
Gezicht op Mariakerke	1900	Drawing
Gezicht op Oostende in het oosten	1888	Print
Girl	1880	Drawing
Girl with Masks (Communion)	1921	Painting
Girl with upturned Nose	1879	Painting
Gluttony	1904	Print
Gluttony (La gourmandise)	1904	Print
Gordijnroede	Date unknown	Drawing
Gourmandise	1904	Print
Grand View of Mariakerke	1887	Print
Grande vue de Mariakerke	1887	Print
Grey Seascape	1880	Painting
Groep gemaskerde muzikanten	Date unknown	Drawing
Groep hoge bomen	1890	Drawing
Groep ruiters	Date unknown	Drawing
Groep soldaten en burgers	Date unknown	Drawing
Groteske figuren	1912	Drawing
Groteske figuur	Date unknown	Drawing
Group of Trees	1888	Print
Hamlet	Date unknown	Drawing
Hand en degen	Date unknown	Drawing
Hand met geweerloop	Date unknown	Drawing
Handen	Date unknown	Drawing
Handen en ornament	Date unknown	Drawing
Handen en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Hangklok en hoeden	1880	Drawing
Havengezicht	Date unknown	Drawing
Heer en dame aan tafel	1912	Drawing
Heer en kelner	Date unknown	Drawing
Heer en twee gehurkte figuurtjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Heer met hoge hoed	Date unknown	Drawing
Heilige Familie	1921	Print
Hemelvaart	1921	Print
Hengst	Date unknown	Drawing
Herbergscène met dansend boerenpaar (verso)	1880	Drawing
Het afscheid van Napoleon	1896	Print
Het balkon	Date unknown	Drawing
Het betoverd meubel	1888	Print
Het doopsel van Christus	1921	Print
Het fantastische bal	1889	Print
Het gesprek	Date unknown	Drawing
Het gevecht	1896	Print
Het grote dok in Oostende	1888	Print
Het laatste avondmaal	1921	Print
Het model	Date unknown	Drawing
Het onweer	1889	Print
Het spook	1889	Print
Het strand van De Panne	1904	Print
Hippogriff, Evil Spirits, Interior Elements	1880	Drawing
Hoed en silhouet	1918	Drawing
Hoek in het atelier met kachelvoet, kist en figuren	1880	Drawing
Hoeve	1920	Drawing
Hoeve te Leffinge	1889	Print
Hoevedaken	Date unknown	Drawing
Hollandse kast	Date unknown	Drawing
Hond	1880	Drawing
Hoofd van een fluitspelende vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Hoofddekseltjes en boerinnetjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Hoofden	1870	Drawing
Hoofden	1882	Drawing
Hoofden	1900	Drawing
Hoofden	Date unknown	Drawing
Hoofden en stilleven	Date unknown	Drawing
Hooiopper met windmolen, boot en kleine hoeve	1888	Drawing
Hooiopper, roeiers in kano, windmolen	Date unknown	Drawing
Hop-Frog	1898	Print
Hop-Frog's Revenge	1885	Print
Hop-Frog's Revenge	1895	Print
Hop-Frog's Revenge	1898	Print
Hop-Frog's Revenge	1922	Print
Horses and silhouettes	1880	Drawing
House on the Boulevard Anspach	1888	Print
Houses, a street lamp and a carriage	1885	Drawing
Houses on the Boulevard Anspach in Brussels(Maisons du boulevard Anspach a Bruxelles)	1888	Print
Huis met bomen	Date unknown	Drawing
Huis met torenerker	1890	Drawing
Huis, narren, portret	Date unknown	Drawing
Huis op de Anspachlaan	1888	Print
Huisjes in Mariakerke	1888	Print
Huizen en peervormig torentje	Date unknown	Drawing
Hutten	1888	Print
I. L'Annonciation	Date unknown	Print
I. Maria-boodschap (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
Icône - Portrait of Eugène Demolder	1893	Painting
II. De aanbidding der wijzen (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
II. L'Adoration des Mages	Date unknown	Print
III. De moord op de onnozele kinderen (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
III. Le Massacre des Innocents	Date unknown	Print
In de loge	Date unknown	Drawing
In the Dunes	1883	Painting
Inneming van een vreemde stad	1888	Print
Insectes singuliers	1888	Print
Insectes singuliers	Date unknown	Print
insects	Date unknown	Drawing
Interieur met open haard	Date unknown	Drawing
Intrede in Jeruzalem	1921	Print
Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouffe, famous Persian physicians, examining the Stool of Darius	1886	Print
Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouffe, famous Persian physicians, examining the Stool of Darius after the battle of Arbela	1886	Print
Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouffe, Famous Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela	1886	Print
Iston Pouffamatus Cracozie Transmouff célèbres medecins persans examinant les selles du Roi Darius après la bataille d'Arbelles	1886	Print
Iston, Pouffamatus... examining the Stool fo Darius	1886	Print
IV. De vlucht naar Egypte (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
IV. La Fuite en Egypte	Date unknown	Print
IX. De zilverling van Caesar (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
IX. Le denier de César	Date unknown	Print
Jardin d'amour	1888	Print
Jardin d'amour	1925	Painting
Jardin d'amour (PK.MP.01200)	1888	Print
Joan of Arc	1880	Drawing
Jonge Picardiërs bij een oefening met lansen	Date unknown	Drawing
Jonge vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Jongen met zwaard	Date unknown	Drawing
Judit en Holofernes	1879	Painting
Kaasklok en lissen	Date unknown	Drawing
Kachel en figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Karnavalfiguurtjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Kerkje van Tholen	Date unknown	Drawing
Kind op rug gezien	1880	Drawing
King Pest	1880	Drawing
King Pest	1895	Print
Klassiek academiemodel	1878	Drawing
Klein gezicht op Mariakerke	1887	Print
Klein gezicht op Mariakerke	1900	Print
Klein meisje en ornament	Date unknown	Drawing
Kleine vreemdsoortige figuren	1888	Print
Koets	1890	Drawing
Koets en twee heren	1880	Drawing
Koffertje en zwaard	Date unknown	Drawing
Koffiekan	Date unknown	Drawing
Koning Pest	1895	Print
Koningin Parysatis	1890	Print
Kop en drie honden	Date unknown	Drawing
Kop in vooraanzicht en in profiel	Date unknown	Drawing
Kop, schoteltje en figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Köpfe	1880	Drawing
Kopie	Date unknown	Drawing
Kopie naar Goya	Date unknown	Drawing
Kopie naar Grévin	Date unknown	Drawing
Kopie naar Salvator Rosa	Date unknown	Drawing
Kopje en afdruk	Date unknown	Drawing
Krabbel	Date unknown	Drawing
Krabbel: militairen	Date unknown	Drawing
Krabbel van marine	Date unknown	Drawing
Krabbel van ornament?	Date unknown	Drawing
Krabbels met houtskool	Date unknown	Drawing
Kroegtafereel	Date unknown	Drawing
Kroonkandelaar en vaas	1888	Print
Kruiwagen en figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Kruiwagen, figuren en schets	1880	Drawing
L'Acacia	1888	Print
L'Amour Moissonneur	Date unknown	Drawing
L'ange exterminateur	1889	Print
L'archer terrible	1888	Print
L'assassinat	1888	Print
L'écorché	1888	Print
L'entrée du Christ à Bruxelles en 1889	1889	Print
L'Entrée du Christ à Bruxelles en 1889	1898	Print
L'Hôtel de ville de Bruxelles	1885	Painting
L'orage	1889	Print
La Blague de l'éléphant	1888	Print
La Cathédrale	1860	Print
La Cathédrale	1886	Print
La dormeuse (rare)	1887	Print
La gamme d'amour	1926	Painting
La Lisiere du bois d'Ostende	1888	Print
La Madeleine	1887	Print
La mort poursuivant le troupeau des humains	1896	Print
La multiplication des poissons	1891	Print
La musique Rue de Flandre à Ostende	1890	Print
La prise d'une ville étrange	1888	Print
La reine Parysatis écorchant un eunuque	1900	Print
La Syrene	Date unknown	Drawing
La Tentation du Christ	1888	Print
La vengeance de Hop-Frog	1898	Print
Laat de kleinen tot mij komen	1921	Print
Lady Godiva	1933	Print
Lady Singing	1880	Drawing
Landelijke brug	1889	Print
Landscape with waterfalls	1875	Painting
Landschap met kerktoren en windmolen	Date unknown	Drawing
Landschap met kruis	Date unknown	Drawing
Landschap met molen en laag wolkendek	1890	Drawing
Landschapsfragment met waterrad en twee figuren (verso)	1880	Drawing
Lantaarn en kruiwagen	1870	Drawing
Large Basin of Ostend Harbor (Le Grand Bassin, Ostende)	1888	Print
Large seascape - Sunset	1885	Painting
Large View of Mariakerke	1887	Print
Large View of Mariakerke (Grande vue de Mariakerke)	1887	Print
Laute spielender Engel	Date unknown	Drawing
Le Bal fantastique	1889	Print
Le Ballet Féerique (Le Jardin D'Amour)	1925	Painting
Le bassin d' Ostende	1888	Print
Le Botaniste Scandinave Frise	1886	Print
Le Boulevard van Iseghem, Ostende	1889	Print
Le Cathédrale	1886	Print
Le Christ apaisant la tempète	1886	Print
Le Christ aux Mendiants	1895	Print
Le Christ dans la barque	1898	Print
Le Christ descendant aux enfers	1895	Print
Le Christ montré au peuple	1886	Print
Le Christ tourmenté (Christ Tormented)	1888	Painting
Le cortège infernal	Date unknown	Drawing
Le coup de vent à la lisière	1888	Print
Le Denier de César	1888	Print
Le Fantôme	1889	Print
Le feu d'artifice (Fireworks)	1887	Painting
Le grand bassin d' Ostende	1888	Print
Le Meuble hanté	1888	Print
Le moulin de Slykens (PK.MP.01186)	1891	Print
Le moulin de Slykens (PK.MP.01187)	1891	Print
Le Pisseur	1887	Print
Le Pont du Bois à Ostende	1889	Print
Le Réverbère	1888	Print
Le Roi Albert et son temps	1932	Print
Le Roi peste	1895	Print
Le verger	1886	Print
Leeuw en schildpad	1880	Drawing
Leeuw met haas	1880	Drawing
Leeuwin die prooi verscheurt	Date unknown	Drawing
Les adieux de Napoleon	1897	Print
Les Bains à Ostende	1899	Print
Les barques	Date unknown	Drawing
Les bons juges	1894	Print
Les cataclysmes, Vision devançant le futurisme	1888	Print
Les Cuisiniers dangereux	1896	Drawing
Les Demons me turlupinant	1895	Print
Les Diables Dzitts et Hihahox menant le Christ aux enfers	1895	Print
Les étoiles au cimetière	1888	Print
Les gendarmes	1888	Print
Les Insèctes Singuliers	1888	Print
Les masques	1922	Print
Les Masques et la Mort	1898	Painting
Les Mauvais médécins	1895	Print
Les patineurs	1889	Print
Les petites barques	1894	Print
Les peupliers	1889	Print
Les toits à Ostende	1903	Print
Les Vieux Polissons	1895	Print
Lezende man	1880	Drawing
Lezende man en hoofden	Date unknown	Drawing
Liggende leeuw	1880	Drawing
Liggende vrouw	1908	Drawing
Light stripped of leaves	1936	Painting
Lion	Date unknown	Drawing
Little Houses at Mariakerke	1888	Print
Little View of Mariakerke	1887	Print
Little View of Mariakerke	1900	Print
Lust	1888	Print
Lust (La luxure)	1888	Print
Luxure	1888	Print
Ma tante chérie	Date unknown	Painting
Madam Gratiot	1880	Drawing
Man, drinkglas en figuurtjes	1881	Drawing
Man en boot, stoel	Date unknown	Drawing
Man en plant	Date unknown	Drawing
Man en twee gehurkte figuurtjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Man in profiel	1917	Drawing
Man met baard	Date unknown	Drawing
Man met hoed	1880	Drawing
Man met pet	Date unknown	Drawing
Man met verfpot	1880	Drawing
Man of Sorrows	1891	Painting
Man steunend op een stok	Date unknown	Drawing
Mand met vruchten	1935	Drawing
Mannelijke naakten	Date unknown	Drawing
Manshoofd in profiel	Date unknown	Drawing
Marche des Rotariens Ostendais	1923	Print
Maria Boodschap	1921	Print
Marine met duin en zeilboten	1917	Drawing
marine / zeegezicht	1910	Painting
Marionet en schouwstijl	Date unknown	Drawing
Mars van de Oostendse Rotariërs	1922–1923	Print
Mars van de Oostendse Rotariërs	1923	Print
Mask and Crustaceans	1891	Painting
Masked woman	Date unknown	Drawing
Masks	1925	Painting
Masks	Date unknown	Drawing
Masks Confronting Death	1888	Painting
Masques Scandalisés	1895	Print
Materiaalstudie	Date unknown	Drawing
Mazurka Caprice de James Ensor	Date unknown	Artwork
Meadow Flowers	1883	Painting
Meeting in a Park	1891	Print
Meisje	1885	Drawing
Meisje met wipneus (?) en Arondskelken	1880	Drawing
Meisje met witte voorschoot	1880	Drawing
Mejuffrouw Zucchi van de 'Eden'	Date unknown	Drawing
Mensenmenigte	Date unknown	Drawing
Menu Charles Vos	1896	Print
Menu for Charles Vos	1896	Print
Menu for Ernest Rousseau	1896	Print
Menu pour Charles Vos	1896	Print
Menu pour Ernest Rousseau, PK.MP.04906	1896	Print
Menu pour Ernest Rousseau, PK.MP.04907	1896	Print
Mery Laurent met mopshond	Date unknown	Drawing
Mijn dode moeder	1915	Drawing
Mijn dode moeder II	1915	Drawing
Mijn dode moeder III	1915	Drawing
Mijn dode moeder IV	1915	Drawing
Mijn dode tante	1916	Drawing
Mijn dode vader	1888	Print
Mijn handen	1928	Drawing
Mijn moeder bij naaiwerk (verso)	Date unknown	Drawing
Mijn portret	1905	Drawing
Mijn portret in 1960	1888	Print
Mijn portret met doodshoofd	1889	Print
Mijn tante	Date unknown	Drawing
Mijn zuster en schets van een schilderij	1880	Drawing
Militair te paard, en stoel	Date unknown	Drawing
Militairen	1880	Drawing
Militairen	Date unknown	Drawing
Militairen en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Minnetuin	1888	Print
Mitche	1880	Drawing
Mitche	Date unknown	Drawing
Mitche Ensor	1885	Drawing
Model of a ship	1885	Drawing
Moeder van Ensor	1870	Drawing
Moeder van Ensor	1880	Drawing
Moeder van Ensor	Date unknown	Drawing
Moeder van Ensor en silhouetten	1880	Drawing
Moeder van Ensor - voet en handen	1880	Drawing
Molen te Slykens	1891	Print
Mon père mort	1888	Print
Mon père mort, PK.MP.04915	1888	Print
Mon père mort, PK.MP.04916	1888	Print
Mon Portrait en 1960	1888	Print
Monkey	Date unknown	Drawing
Monniken bij het balspel	Date unknown	Drawing
Monotype	Date unknown	Drawing
Monsters and Caricatures	1888	Drawing
Mordecai's Triumph	1880	Drawing
Moses and the Birds	1924	Painting
Mother of Rembrandt and other Figures	1880	Drawing
moulin: Slykens	1891	Print
Mountain Landscape	1890	Drawing
Mountain Landscape	Date unknown	Drawing
Music in the Vlaanderenstraat	1891	Painting
Music-making group	1877	Drawing
Music on the Rue de Flandres	1890	Print
Musiciens fantasques	1888	Print
Muziek in de Vlaanderenstraat in Oostende	1890	Print
My Dead Father	1888	Print
My Favorite Room	1892	Painting
My Portrait as a Skeleton	1889	Print
My Portrait in 1960	1888	Print
My Skeletized Portrait	1889	Print
My Sleeping Aunt Dreaming of Monsters	1888	Drawing
Mythologische scène	1877	Drawing
Naaiende handen	Date unknown	Drawing
Naaiwerk (De handen)	Date unknown	Drawing
Naakten en harlekijnen	Date unknown	Drawing
Naked boy	1878	Painting
Napoleon's Farewell	1897	Print
Narren	Date unknown	Drawing
Nature morte au canard	1910	Painting
Neptunus	Date unknown	Drawing
Neushoorn	Date unknown	Drawing
Nimfen	1923	Drawing
Odalisk	Date unknown	Drawing
Old Lady with Masks	1889	Painting
Old man	1878	Painting
Old Man with Flowing Beard	1880	Drawing
Oostende, gezicht vanuit het station	Date unknown	Drawing
Oostendse verhalen door Theo Hannon	Date unknown	Drawing
Oostendse visser	1900	Print
Oosters paar	Date unknown	Drawing
Op de koerstribune	1880	Drawing
Open haard	Date unknown	Drawing
Openstaand raam met loodglas	Date unknown	Drawing
Operascène	Date unknown	Drawing
Opgebonden overgordijn	Date unknown	Drawing
Ophelia	Date unknown	Drawing
Orchard (Le Verger)	1886	Print
Orgueil	1904	Print
Ornament - Head of a monster	Date unknown	Drawing
Ornament - kop	Date unknown	Drawing
Ornament - Leeuwenkop	Date unknown	Drawing
Ornament - Lion's head	Date unknown	Drawing
Ostend Harbour	1900	Painting
Oude vrouw en kind	Date unknown	Drawing
Paar	Date unknown	Drawing
Paar in interieur	Date unknown	Drawing
Paar voor rustbed	1880	Drawing
Paard en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Paarden en hoek van zitbank	Date unknown	Drawing
Paarden en tekst	Date unknown	Drawing
Paarden en vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Paarden en zittende man	Date unknown	Drawing
Paarden, kar en werkman	1880	Drawing
Paresse	1902	Print
Pear, grapes and nuts	1889	Painting
Péchés capitaux dominés par la mort	1904	Print
Pécheur d'Ostende, PK.MP.04918	1900	Print
Pécheur d'Ostende, PK.MP.04919	1900	Print
Pécheur d'Ostende, PK.MP.04920	1900	Print
Peculiar Insects	1888	Print
Pen and inkpot on a glass dish	1885	Drawing
Peonies and Poppies	1883	Painting
Perplexed Masks	1904	Print
Peste dessous, peste dessus, peste partout!	1904	Print
Petite vue de Mariakerke	1887	Print
Petite vue de Mariakerke	1900	Print
Petite vue de Mariakerke (PK.MP.04893)	1887	Print
Pierrot and Skeleton in a Yellow Robe	1893	Painting
Pierrot and skeletons	1906	Painting
Pierrot's despair	1910	Painting
Pigs	1875	Painting
Pink Dancer (from the series Les Opalines)	1913	Print
Plage de La Panne	1904	Print
Plage de La Panne (PK.MP.04897)	1904	Print
Plague here, Plague there, Plague everywhere	1888	Drawing
Poezen en raam	1870	Drawing
Pollution Under, Pollution over, Pollution All Around	1904	Print
Popje	1886	Drawing
Porcelaines et Masques	1929	Painting
Portrait d'Ernest Rousseau	1887	Print
Portrait D'Hector Denis	1890	Print
Portrait de Augusta Bogaerts (La Sirene)	Date unknown	Painting
Portrait du professeur Ernest Rousseau	1887	Print
Portrait of a Boy	1906	Painting
Portrait of a Man	1880	Drawing
Portrait of a Man	Date unknown	Drawing
Portrait of Emile Verhaeren	1890	Painting
Portrait of Hector Denis	1890	Print
Portrait of René Coens	1937	Drawing
Portrait of the Artist Henry de Groux	1883	Drawing
Portrait of the Artist's Father	1881	Painting
Portrait of the Artist's Mother	1882	Painting
Portrait of the Artist Willy Finch	1883	Drawing
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother	1885	Painting
Portrait of Willy Finch	1882	Painting
Portret van Alexandra Daveluy	1927	Painting
Portret van Dario de Regoyos schrijvende	1880	Drawing
Portret van een vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Portret van Ernest Rousseau	1887	Drawing
Portret van Hector Denis	1890	Print
Portret van mijn moeder en figuren	1880	Drawing
Portret van Willy Finch	1888	Drawing
Portret van Willy Finch op de rug	1880	Drawing
Poster of La Plume	1922	Print
Poster of the Carnival at Ostend	1931	Print
Pouilleux indisposé se chauffant	1895	Print
Pride	1904	Print
Pride (L'orgueil)	1904	Print
Programma van de opvoering van het ballet "La Gamme d'Amour" - Schouwburg Oostende 17 december 1932	1932	Print
Pronkkast en figuren	1880	Drawing
Publicitaire sluitzegel voor het carnaval van Oostende	1931	Print
Puzzled Masks	1904	Print
Queen Parysatis	1899	Print
Regentessen van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Een figuur	1880	Drawing
Regentessen van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Handen	1880	Drawing
Regentessen van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Mouw van een regentes	1880	Drawing
Regentessen van het Oudemannenhuis in Haarlem. Twee paar handen	1880	Drawing
Rembrandt's Self Portrait	1880	Drawing
Rendez notre ancienne face fors les chers faux nez burlesques	1923	Drawing
René Lyr	Date unknown	Drawing
Reptiel en dierenkopje	Date unknown	Drawing
Return from Calvary	1877	Painting
Return of the prodigal son	1877	Painting
Reverences of Puppets before Cydalise (from the series Les Opalines)	1913	Print
Rocaillemotief (verso)	1888	Drawing
Roi Peste	1895	Print
Roman Triumph	1889	Print
Roman Victory	1889	Print
Roofs at Ostend	1903	Print
Rooftops of Ostend	1885	Painting
Rue du Bon Secours, Brussels	1887	Print
Rue du Bon Secrous, Brussels	1887	Print
Ruiter	1870	Drawing
Ruiter van de lichte artillerie	Date unknown	Drawing
Russian Music	1881	Painting
Rustend paar	Date unknown	Drawing
Rustend vrouwelijk naakt	Date unknown	Drawing
Rustende vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Rustic Bridge	1889	Print
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows	1880	Drawing
Satan and the Fantastic Legions Tormenting the Crucified (The Sad and Broken) (recto)	1886	Drawing
Sater	Date unknown	Drawing
Satire of Laurent Tailhade	Date unknown	Drawing
Scandalized Masks	1895	Print
Schedels en maskers	1888	Print
Schets naar oude meester en figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Schetsblad met Christusbeeld	Date unknown	Drawing
Schetsblad met ruiters	Date unknown	Drawing
Schetsblad met staande man	Date unknown	Drawing
Schetsbladen op een blad	Date unknown	Drawing
Schetsboek	Date unknown	Drawing
Schetsen	1880	Drawing
Schetsen van figuren en paarden (recto)	1880	Drawing
Schetsen van handen	Date unknown	Drawing
Schildpad	Date unknown	Drawing
Schouw en handen	1887	Drawing
Schrijvende man	1880	Drawing
Schrijvende of lezende man	Date unknown	Drawing
Schrijvende vrouw op rug gezien	1882	Drawing
Seascape	1880	Painting
Seashells	1896	Painting
Seashells	1936	Painting
Seashells and Chinoiseries	1882	Painting
Seaside	1923	Painting
Seated Boy	1880	Drawing
Seated Man	Date unknown	Drawing
Seated Woman	Date unknown	Drawing
Selbstporträt umringt von Köpfen	1900	Drawing
Self Portrait	1870	Drawing
Self Portrait	1880	Drawing
Self-Portrait	1885	Drawing
Self-Portrait	1886	Print
Self Portrait	Date unknown	Drawing
Self-portrait with flowered hat	c. 1885–1888 (inscribed 1883)	Painting
Self-Portrait (with lamp)	1886	Print
Self-Portrait with Lamp (In the Dark)	1886	Drawing
Self-portrait with masks	1899	Painting
Self-Portrait with Masks	1937	Painting
Series of Masks	Date unknown	Drawing
Sick Wretch Warming Himself	1895	Print
Sierpot en paard	1880	Drawing
Silhouette of a Woman, Mitche and a Lock	1885	Drawing
Silhouetten	1880	Drawing
Silhouetten	1917	Drawing
Silhouetten	1918	Drawing
Silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Silhouetten en 2 figuren op de rug gezien	Date unknown	Drawing
Silhouetten en hoofden	1880	Drawing
Silhouetten en kar	Date unknown	Drawing
Silhouettes	1880	Drawing
Silhouettes and grotesque figures	1880	Drawing
Silhouettes Studies of walking figures	Date unknown	Drawing
Skelet bekijkt chinoiserieën	1910	Painting
Skeleton Looking at Chinoiseries	1885	Painting
Skeleton Painter in his Studio	1896	Painting
Skeletons fighting over a Hanged Man	1891	Painting
Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring	1891	Painting
Skeletons in Fancy Dress	1898	Painting
Skeletons in the Studio	1900	Painting
Skeletons seeking warmth	Date unknown	Print
Skeletons Trying to Warm Themselves (Taevernier: Warmth Seeking Skeletons)	1895	Print
Skeletons Warming Themselves	1889	Painting
Skulls and Masks	1888	Print
Slapend meisje	Date unknown	Drawing
Slapende en wakende vrouw	1880	Drawing
Slapende honden	1880	Drawing
Slapende moeder van Ensor	1915	Drawing
Slapende oude vrouw	1880	Drawing
Slapende oude vrouw	1895	Drawing
Slapende oude vrouw	1897	Drawing
Slapende oude vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Slapende vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Sloepen	1888	Print
Sloops	1890	Painting
Sloth	1902	Print
Sloth	1904	Print
Sloth (La paresse)	1902	Print
Small Bizarre Figures	1888	Print
Small House at Mariakerke	1888	Print
Small View of Mariakerke	1900	Print
Smid en kandelaar	Date unknown	Drawing
Smidse met twee figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Smile of Carnations, Caress of Daisies	1936	Painting
Snuisterijen en figuren	1883	Drawing
Soldaat en monnik	Date unknown	Drawing
Soldatentrupp	Date unknown	Drawing
Soldier and horse	Date unknown	Drawing
Sorciers dans la bourrasque	1888	Print
Sous-bois à Groenendael	1888	Print
Spijskaart voor Charles Vos	1896	Print
Spitting man	Date unknown	Drawing
Spookgestalte	Date unknown	Drawing
Squall at the Edge of the Wood	1888	Print
Square Rembrandt, Amsterdam graphic	Date unknown	Print
Squelettes voulant se chauffer	1895	Print
Squelettes voulant se chauffer	Date unknown	Drawing
Staande en zittende zigeunersvrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Staande figuur op de rug gezien	Date unknown	Drawing
Stadhuis van Oudenaarde	1888	Print
Stand of Trees (Bouquet d'arbres)	1888	Print
Stapel boeken	1880	Drawing
Steam-Boats	1888–1889	Print
Steamboats	1889	Print
Steamships	1889	Print
Steekspel	Date unknown	Drawing
Sterrenhemel boven het kerkhof	1888	Print
Still-life (Fabrics)	1880	Painting
Still Life in the Studio	1889	Painting
Still life with a cabbage	1921	Painting
Still Life with Blue Jar	1890	Painting
Still Life with Blue Pitcher	1891	Painting
Still Life with chinoiseries	1880	Painting
Still Life with Chinoiseries	1906	Painting
Still-life with duck	1880	Painting
Still Life with Fish and Shells	1898	Painting
Still Life with Geranium	1882	Painting
Still-life with Masks	1896	Painting
Still Life with Oysters	1882	Painting
Still Life with Sea Shells	1923	Painting
Still Life with Tulips and Roses	1882	Painting
Stilleven met blauwe chinoiserieën	Date unknown	Painting
Stilleven met flessen	Date unknown	Drawing
Stilleven met groenten	1882	Painting
Stilleven met kaars	Date unknown	Drawing
Stilleven met sater	Date unknown	Drawing
Stilleven met visserslamp	Date unknown	Drawing
Stilleven, spiegel, zittende figuur	Date unknown	Drawing
Stillleben mit blauer Flasche und gerupftem Huhn - 4420 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere	1910	Painting
Storm at the Edge of the Wood	1888	Print
Straat in Oostende (?)	1895	Drawing
Straat naast het kanaal	Date unknown	Drawing
Straatlantaarn	1888	Print
Strand- en zeegenoegens	1890	Drawing
Strand von Ostende - 2122 - Kunsthaus Zürich	1915	Painting
Strandtent en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Streaming water	1913	Drawing
Studie	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie met flessen en koppen	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van badende vrouwen	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van dame met parasol	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van drie staande en een zittende figuur [recto: De bergrede]	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van een badende vrouw	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van een wild dier	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van handen en hoofden	1880	Drawing
Studie van houdingen	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van kerstgroepen	Date unknown	Drawing
Studie van kopprofielen en van handen	1880	Drawing
Studieblad van de leeuwenjacht	Date unknown	Drawing
Studies for a Portrait of a Woman	1885	Drawing
Studies van voorovergebogen hoofd	1880	Drawing
Sunrise	1880	Drawing
Tafel, kruiken, roemer, figuren (verso)	1888	Drawing
Tafel met leeuwenkoppen	Date unknown	Drawing
Taferelen uit het leven van Christus	1921	Print
Taskin als wonderdokter in Hoffmann's vertellingen	Date unknown	Drawing
Tekeningen uit de collectie van het KMSKA	Date unknown	Drawing
Tekst	Date unknown	Drawing
Tekst en hoofd van een vrouw met bril en figuren (verso)	1880	Drawing
Tenhemelopneming van Maria	1921	Print
Terugkeer van de berenjacht in het steentijdperk	Date unknown	Drawing
The absinthe drinker	1880	Drawing
The Acacia (L'acacia)	1888	Print
The Adoration of the Shepherds	1887	Painting
The Adoration of the Shepherds	1888	Print
The Adoration of the Shepherds (The Joyful)	1886	Drawing
The Afternoon Nap (recto)	1880	Drawing
The artist's aunt	1880	Drawing
The artist's father in death	Date unknown	Drawing
The artist's mother	1880	Drawing
The Artist's Mother in Death	1915	Painting
The artist's sister Mitche and figure	Date unknown	Drawing
The Artist's Studio	1930	Painting
The Assassination	1888	Print
The Assassination	1890	Painting
The Bad Doctors	1892	Painting
The Bad Doctors	1895	Print
The Bad Doctors graphic	1895	Print
The Baths at Ostend	1890	Painting
The Baths at Ostend	1899	Print
The Baths at Ostende	1899	Print
The Battle of the Golden Spurs	1891	Drawing
The bird-garden	1936	Painting
The Bourgeois Salon	1881	Painting
The Bourgeois Salon II	1911	Painting
The Breakwater	1878	Painting
The Bridge in the Wood at Ostend	1889	Print
The Bridge in the Woods, Ostend (Le pont du bois a Ostende)	1889	Print
The cabbage	1880	Painting
The Canal	1921	Painting
The Cataclysms	1888	Print
The Cathedral	1886	Print
The Cathedral	1886–1896	Print
The Cathedral (La cathedrale)	1886	Print
The Cathedral (The Troopers Kès and Pruta Entering the City of Bise)	1892	Drawing
The Cemetery	1888	Print
The City Hall in Audenarde (L'hotel de ville d'Audenarde)	1888	Print
The Coach	Date unknown	Drawing
The Combat	1896	Print
The Convalescent	1880	Painting
The Conversation	Date unknown	Drawing
The Crypt	1888	Print
The cuirassiers of Waterloo	1891	Drawing
The Dangerous Cooks	1896	Painting
The Dead Cockerel	1894	Painting
The Dead Soldier	Date unknown	Drawing
The Deadly Sins Dominated by Death	1904	Print
The Death of the Holy Virgin	1880	Drawing
The Destroying Angel	1889	Print
The Devil and the Windmill	1934	Print
The Devils Dzitts and Hihahox, Commanded by Crazon Riding a Furious Cat, Leading Christ to Hell	1886	Drawing
The Devils Dzitts and Hihahox, Commanded by Crazon Riding a Furious Cat, Leading Christ to Hell	1895	Print
The Devils Dzitts and Hihanox Leading Christ into Hell	1895	Print
The Devils Dzitts and Hihanox Leading Christ to Hell	1895	Print
The dissolute mercenaries	1892	Drawing
The edge of the wood in Ostend	1886	Painting
The Elephant's Joke	1888	Print
The Entry of Christ into Brussels	1895	Print
The Entry of Christ into Brussels	1898	Print
The Entry of Christ into Brussels (L'entree du Christ a Bruxelles)	1898	Print
The Exterminating Angel	1889	Print
The Exterminating Angel (L'ange exterminateur)	1889	Print
The Fantastic Ball	1889	Print
The Fantastic Musicians	1888	Print
The Fight	1896	Print
The Fight	1925	Painting
The Flagellation	1886	Print
The Flaying	1888	Print
The fool	Date unknown	Drawing
The Gamblers	1895	Print
The Gamblers	1896	Print
The garden at café Tivoli in Ostend	1876	Painting
The Garden of Love	1888	Print
The Garden of Love	1921	Painting
The Garden of Love (1891)	1891	Painting
The Garden of Love (Toyota)	1888	Painting
The Garden of the Rousseau Family	1885	Painting
The Gendarmes	1888	Print
The gendarmes	1892	Painting
The Ghost	1889	Print
The Goldsmith Jan Lutma	Date unknown	Drawing
The Good Judges	1894	Print
The Grotesque Musicians	1888	Print
The Guitarist	Date unknown	Drawing
The Hands of Elisabeth Bas	1880	Drawing
The haunted cabinet	1888	Print
The Haunted Furniture	1888	Print
The Hunter	1888	Print
The Ice Skaters (Les Patineurs)	1889	Print
The infernal cortege	1880	Print
The Infernal Cortege	1887	Print
The Intrigue	1890	Painting
The Jolly Hunters	Date unknown	Drawing
The Journalist Paul de Cassagnac	Date unknown	Drawing
The lady in blue	1881	Painting
The Lady in Distress	1882	Painting
The Lady with Fan	1880	Painting
The Lady with Red Parasol	1880	Painting
The lampions	Date unknown	Drawing
The Lamplighter	1880	Painting
The Lamplighter	1886	Drawing
The language of flowers	1938	Painting
The Lighthouse at Ostend	1885	Painting
The Magdalene	1887	Print
The Main Dock of Ostend	1888	Print
The Main Dock, Ostend	1888	Print
The Marquise	1911	Painting
The Marsh	1880	Painting
The Mask's Wedding	1926	Painting
The Master Painter	Date unknown	Drawing
The Melancholy Fishwives	1892	Painting
The Multiplication of the Fishes	1891	Print
The Murder	1888	Print
The Music in the rue de Flandre, Ostend	1890	Print
The Mystical Death of a Divine	1880	Drawing
The Old Rascals	1895	Print
The Old ... Raskals	1895	Print
The Orchard	1886	Print
The Oyster Eater	1882	Painting
The Painter Alfred William Finch	1880	Painting
The Painter Edouard Manet	1880	Drawing
The Painter Edouard Manet	Date unknown	Drawing
The Painter Eugène Delacroix	Date unknown	Drawing
The Painter Gustave Courbet	Date unknown	Drawing
The Painter Jan Asselijn or "Crabbetje	1880	Drawing
The Painter Jean François Millet	Date unknown	Drawing
The Pancake Woman	1880	Drawing
The Parasol	1880	Painting
The piano	1880	Drawing
The Pisser	1886	Print
The Pisser	1887	Print
The Playwright Emile Augier	Date unknown	Drawing
The Poet Jean Richepin	Date unknown	Drawing
The Pool of the Poplars	1889	Print
The Pool of the Poplars graphic	1889	Print
The Port of Ostend (Vue du port d'Ostende)	1888	Print
The Procession at Gistel	1934	Print
The Procession of the Penitents at Furnes	1935	Painting
The Ray	1892	Painting
The Rebel Angels Struck by Lightning	1907	Print
The red mullet	1880	Painting
The Riding Crop	Date unknown	Drawing
The Roman Triumph	Date unknown	Drawing
The Rooftops of Ostend	1884	Painting
The rooftops of Ostend	1901	Painting
The Rower	1883	Painting
The Savoy Cabbage	1884	Painting
The scaffolding	1880	Drawing
The Scandalized Masks	1883	Painting
The Scavenger	1896	Print
The Scoundrels	1896	Print
The Seashells (Columbus)	1895	Painting
The Shadow on the House	1933	Print
The Skate	1880	Painting
The Skaters	1888–1889	Print
The Skaters	1889	Print
The Sleeper	1887	Print
The Small Boats	1894	Print
The Sombre Lady	1881	Painting
The Stars in the Cemetery	1888	Print
The strange masks	1892	Painting
The Street-Lamp	1888	Print
The strike	1888	Drawing
The Supper at Emmaus	1880	Drawing
The Temptation of Christ	1888	Print
The Temptation of Christ	1913	Painting
The Temptation of Saint Anthony	1887–1888	Drawing
The Temptation of Saint Anthony the Great	1927	Painting
The Terrible Archer	1888	Print
The Thunderstorm	1889	Print
The Tournament	1894	Drawing
The Tribulations of St. Anthony	1909	Painting
The Triumph of the Death	1887	Drawing
The Van Iseghemlaan in the snow	1881	Painting
The Vengeance of Hop-Frog	1896	Painting
The Virgin of Consolation	1892	Painting
The Wait	1880	Painting
The War of the Snails	1911	Print
The White Cloud	1884	Painting
The Windmill at Mariakerke	1889	Print
The wise judges	1891	Painting
The Wise Judges	1894	Print
The Youth of Orpheus	Date unknown	Drawing
Theatre of Masks	1889	Painting
Theatre of Masks (1908)	1908	Painting
Theo Hannon	1880	Drawing
Theo Hannon	1881	Painting
Theo Hannon met pijp	1880	Drawing
Three Silhouettes (recto)	1880	Painting
Tijgerjacht	Date unknown	Drawing
Toilettafel met wasstel en spiegel	Date unknown	Drawing
Tolstoï	Date unknown	Drawing
Toneelfiguren	Date unknown	Drawing
Toneelfiguur	Date unknown	Drawing
Toneelscène	1910	Drawing
Tovenaars in de stormwind	1888	Print
Town Hall of Audenaerde	1888	Print
Trap, man, gebladerte (detail)	Date unknown	Drawing
Treurende vrouw en leeuwenkop	1870	Drawing
Tribulations of Saint Anthony	1887	Painting
Triomftocht van een Romeinse Veldheer	Date unknown	Print
Triomphe romain	1889	Print
Trommelaar	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee danseressen	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee figuren en ornament	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee heren	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee heren en pauw	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee honden	1894	Drawing
Twee hoofddeksels en boerinnetjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee hoofden	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee hoofden, paar, hand	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee knapen in het gras	1880	Drawing
Twee koperen potten (verso)	1880	Drawing
Twee kopjes en afdruk	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee koppen en een hand	1880	Drawing
Twee militairen	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee naakten op de rug gezien	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee ridderfiguren	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee trappen en mand	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee vrouwen	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee vrouwen en een theoloog	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee windmolens, zeilboot en kleine marine	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee zeilboten	Date unknown	Drawing
Twee zeilboten en een windmolen	1950	Drawing
Tweearmige pianokandelaar en muziekblad	Date unknown	Drawing
Two Arabs	Date unknown	Drawing
Two Dogs	Date unknown	Drawing
Two draught horses	Date unknown	Drawing
Two Gentlemen Smoking	Date unknown	Drawing
Two heads and a spinning-wheel	Date unknown	Drawing
Two masks	1880	Drawing
Two masks	Date unknown	Drawing
Two Nude Figures	Date unknown	Drawing
Two spoons and a curtain	1885	Drawing
Two Women	Date unknown	Drawing
Two women on a beach	Date unknown	Drawing
Un bon coin chez moi	1938	Painting
Under the Shadow of Masks	1925–1937	Painting
Untitled	Date unknown	Print
V. De Heilige Familie (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
V. La Sainte Famille	Date unknown	Print
Vaas en vliegende eend	Date unknown	Drawing
Vaas en voeten (recto)	1880	Drawing
Vaas met bloemen	Date unknown	Drawing
Vaas met bloemen en schelp	1932	Drawing
Vaas met bloemornamenten	Date unknown	Drawing
Vaas met vismotief en vrouw met bloemenvaas	1880	Drawing
Vaas, paard en figuren (verso)	1880	Drawing
Vaas, spinnewiel, soldaten, vrouwen	Date unknown	Drawing
Vader (?) en moeder van Ensor	1870	Drawing
Van Iseghemlaan, Oostende	1889	Print
Van Izegemlaan in Ostend	1880	Drawing
Varken en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Verhaal zonder woorden (of) De jagers in de winter	1881	Drawing
Verovering van een vreemde stad	1888	Print
Verpesting beneden, verpesting boven, verpesting overal	1904	Print
verzameling van 184 etsen	Date unknown	Print
VI. De besnijdenis (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
VI. La Circoncision	Date unknown	Print
Vier naakten	Date unknown	Drawing
Vier schouwburgbezoekers	Date unknown	Drawing
View of a beach with two boats	Date unknown	Drawing
View of a street with a barrow, a streetlamp and a man sitting on a bench	Date unknown	Drawing
View of Mariakerke	1901	Painting
View of Nieuport	1888	Print
View of Ostend in the East	1888	Print
View of Phnosie, luminous waves and vibrations	1890	Painting
View of the Ostend Harbour	1888	Print
View of the Van Iseghemlaan	1906	Painting
VII. De doop van Christus (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
VII. Le Baptême du Christ	Date unknown	Print
VIII. Christus bij de schriftgeleerden (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
VIII. Le Christ et les docteurs	Date unknown	Print
Vijf personages in een boot (verso)	1880	Drawing
Village Fair at the Windmill	1889	Print
Vissen op een schotel	Date unknown	Drawing
Visser met paard	Date unknown	Drawing
Vlam	Date unknown	Drawing
Vleugel tegen zonnestralen	Date unknown	Drawing
Vlucht naar Egypte	1921	Print
Vlugge schetsen van bedelaars	Date unknown	Drawing
Voetpaadje in Groenendaal	1888	Print
Voetpaadje te Groenendaal	1888	Print
Vogel en hond bij tak	Date unknown	Drawing
Voor de alcade	Date unknown	Drawing
Voorovergebogen figuren	1880	Drawing
Voorovergebogen figuur en tekst	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw aan klavier en Alfred William Finch	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw die pannenkoeken bakt	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw en hondje	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw, handen en kar	1881	Drawing
Vrouw in profiel gezien	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw - man en paard	1880	Drawing
Vrouw met hoed	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw met kind, zittend en staand paar	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouw met naaiwerk	1880	Drawing
Vrouw met neergeslagen blik	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenhoofd	1883	Drawing
Vrouwenhoofd	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenhoofd en figuren	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenhoofd en zittende figuur	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenkop en figuurtjes	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenkop en silhouetten	Date unknown	Drawing
Vrouwenprofiel (Mariette Rousseau) en andere figuren	1885	Drawing
Vue d'Ostende	1893	Painting
Vue D'Ostende à L'est	1888	Print
Vue de Nieuport	1888	Print
Vue du port d' Ostende	1888	Print
Waaier, lamp en figuren (recto)	1880	Drawing
Walkurengenoegens	Date unknown	Drawing
Wandelaar	1883	Drawing
Wasvrouwen bij de Middellandse zee	Date unknown	Drawing
Weggeveegde tekening	Date unknown	Drawing
Wenken der nimfen	1923	Drawing
Wenteltrap	Date unknown	Drawing
White and Red Clowns Evolving	1890	Drawing
Willy Finch in his Studio	1880	Painting
Willy Finch in the Studio	1880	Painting
Windmill	Date unknown	Drawing
Windmill and boats	Date unknown	Drawing
Windmill at Skykens	1891	Print
Windmill at Slijkens (Bredene)	1891	Print
Windmill at Slykens	1891	Print
Windmill "Den Oranjenboom	Date unknown	Drawing
Windmolen met zeilboot en met kerk	Date unknown	Drawing
Windstoot in het geboomte	1888	Print
Wit paard, stoel en figuren	1880	Drawing
Witches in the Whirlwind	1896	Drawing
Wizards in a Squall	1888	Print
Woman	Date unknown	Drawing
Woman on a Breakwater	1880	Painting
Woman reading	Date unknown	Drawing
Woman with a Hood and a Wasp	1885	Drawing
Woman with Blue Shawl	1881	Painting
Wordly meeting	Date unknown	Drawing
X. Laat de kleinen tot mij komen (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
X. Laissez venir à moi les petits enfants	Date unknown	Print
XI. Christus drijft de duivel uit bij een bezetene (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XI. Le Christ chassant le Démon du corps d'un possédé	Date unknown	Print
XII. Christus bedaart de storm (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XII. Le Christ apaisant la tempête	Date unknown	Print
XIII. De wonderbare visvangst (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XIII. La Pêche miraculeuse	Date unknown	Print
XIV. Christus loopt op het water (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XIV. Le Christ marchant sur la mer	Date unknown	Print
XIX. Christus ter berechting overgeleverd aan de schriftgeleerden (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XIX. Le Christ aux critiques	Date unknown	Print
XV. De intrede in Jeruzalem (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XV. L'entrée à Jérusalem	Date unknown	Print
XVI. Het Laatste Avondmaal (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XVI. La Cène	Date unknown	Print
XVII. De judaskus (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XVII. Le baiser de Judas	Date unknown	Print
XVIII. De bespotting van Christus (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XVIII. Le Christ aux outrages	Date unknown	Print
XX. De geseling (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XX. La Flagellation	Date unknown	Print
XXI. De kruisweg (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXI. La montée au Calvaire	Date unknown	Print
XXII. De kruisoprichting (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXII. L'Élévation en croix	Date unknown	Print
XXIII. Christus tussen de moordenaars (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXIII. Le Christ entre les larrons	Date unknown	Print
XXIV. De kruisafneming (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXIV. La Descente de croix	Date unknown	Print
XXIX. De Heilige Geest verlicht de apostelen (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXIX. Le Saint Esprit éclairant les Apôtres	Date unknown	Print
XXV. Le retour du Calvaire	Date unknown	Print
XXV. Terugkeer van de Calvarieberg (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXVI. Le Christ sur les genoux de sa mère	Date unknown	Print
XXVI. Piëta (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXVII. Christus en de engelen (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXVII. Le Christ et les Anges	Date unknown	Print
XXVIII. De Hemelvaart (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXVIII. L'Ascension	Date unknown	Print
XXX. De Tenhemelopneming van Maria (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXX. L'Assomption	Date unknown	Print
XXXI. De engelen vereren Maria (uit: Taferelen uit het leven van Christus)	1921	Print
XXXI. La Vierge adorée par les Anges	Date unknown	Print
Yellow Apples	1880	Painting
Young Boy	1882	Drawing
Zakmes met bewerkte hecht	Date unknown	Drawing
Zeilboot	Date unknown	Painting
Zeilboot, dorpskerk en windmolen	Date unknown	Drawing
Zeilbootje	Date unknown	Drawing
Zeilboten	1890	Drawing
Zeilboten	Date unknown	Drawing
Zelfportret	1919	Drawing
Zelfportret en figuren - Ensor en zijn familie	1886	Drawing
Zelfportret onder leeuwenjacht	Date unknown	Drawing
Zelfportret ("Pas fini")	1885	Drawing
Zicht op Nieuwpoort	1888	Print
Zieke luizenbos bij de kachel	1895	Print
Zittend meisje en twee figuurtjes	1917	Drawing
Zittend naakt met gekruiste benen	Date unknown	Drawing
Zittende en staande heer	Date unknown	Drawing
Zolder, trap en mand (verso)	Date unknown	Drawing
Zonderlinge insecten	1888	Print

Frequently Asked Questions

References

1. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), “The Intrigue”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
2. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), “De intrige”. View source; detailed object and acquisition record; accessed 30 August 2026.
3. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), “Intriguing Masks”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
4. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), “James Ensor”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
5. Minneapolis Institute of Art, “The Intrigue”. View source; 1911, object 70.38; accessed 30 August 2026.
6. Flemish Art Collection, “Masks”. View source; Inne Gheeraert; James Ensor: An Online Museum; accessed 30 August 2026.
7. Museum of Modern Art, “James Ensor: Masks Confronting Death, 1888”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
8. Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), “Astonishment of the Mask Wouse”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
9. Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, “Squelettes se disputant un hareng saur”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
10. J. Paul Getty Museum, “Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889”. View source; accessed 30 August 2026.
11. Flemish Art Collection, “Biography”. View source; Herwig Todts, with Cathérine Verleysen and Robert Hoozee; James Ensor: An Online Museum; accessed 30 August 2026.

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