Portrait of the Artist's Niece in Chinese Costume

Prints and Drawings

1899

James Ensor
Belgian, 1860-1949

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James Ensor
Title: Portrait of the Artist's Niece in Chinese Costume
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.: 1899
Medium: Watercolor over graphite, retouched in pen and ink, on light tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed in ink and red and blue watercolor: "J. Ensor 99"; inscribed verso, in graphite: "Portrait de ma nièce Madame R. Daveluy, fille de Madame Marie Ensor, peint en 1899. / J. Ensor"
Dimensions: 63.8 × 49.7 cm (25 1/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1972.426
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

Grégoire le Roy, James Ensor (Brussels and Paris 1922), p. 187.

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 5–27, 1974, cat. 17.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 158-59, cat. 78 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “James Ensor,” January-April 1977, cat. 48, cat. by John D. Farmer; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, November 6, 1976-January 2, 1977.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1985-1986.
Kunsthaus Zürich, “James Ensor,” May 5-July 31, 1983, cat. 253; traveled to Antwerp Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, August 20-October 30, 1983.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, “James Ensor,” September 24, 1999-February 13, 2000, cat. 253.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor”, November 23, 2014 - January 25, 2015.

Camille Gutt (died 1971), Brussels, Belgium, by 1971; sold, Sotheby’s, London, April 12, 1972, lot 87, to Hale. Sold by E. V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.

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