The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

Date:: 1886
Medium:: Etching
Dimensions:: sheet: 12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in. (30.9 x 23.6 cm) plate: 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (9.5 x 6.4 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: Purchase, Derald H. and Janet Ruttenberg Gift, 2000
Accession Number:: 2000.447

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Signed in stone, lower left: ENSOR; Signed in graphite, lower right: James Ensor; signed in graphite on verso: Ensor

Inscription: Inscribed in graphite at bottom: L'artiste par lui même; dated in graphite: 1886
Provenance

Vendor: Shepherd Gallery Associates
Catalogue Raisonné

Tavernier 4.i
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Who
James Ensor (18)
What
Prints (65,206)

Etching (24,892)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Belgium (1,232)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
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Symbolism

Central Europe and Low Countries, 1800–1900 A.D.