Details

Title

Gluttony (La Gourmandise), from the Deadly Sins (Les Péchés Capitaux) series

Artist/Maker

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

Date

1904

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from the Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

72.8 F

On View

Currently not on view

Despite the two men at the table throwing up their food, a decapitated head lying on a plate, and Death carrying in the next course, the scene is filled with an amusing joviality. A painting hanging on the dining room wall of pigs being slaughtered obliquely suggests that the two gluttons deserve the same fate.