Death of Jezebel

Prints and Drawings

1880

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Death of Jezebel
Place: Belgium (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1880
Medium: Charcoal on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right corner, in graphite: "James Ensor 1880" Inscribed lower left corner, in graphite: "La mort de Jezebel"
Dimensions: 70.2 × 52 cm (27 11/16 × 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Margaret Day Blake
Reference Number: 1960.156
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 133.
St Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, “Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists and Draughtsmen,” March 13–April 8, 1966, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 40 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor”, November 23, 2014 - January 25, 2015. Also exhibited Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, June 10 - September 7, 2014.

Estate of the artist; sold to Allan Frumkin, Chicago [according to a letter from Allan Frumkin dated October 9, 2002 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1960.

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