Details

Title

Sloth (La Paresse), from the Deadly Sins (Les Péchés Capitaux) series

Artist/Maker

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

Date

1902

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 B

Location

Currently not on view

While the world outside is seen toiling at various tasks, two lazy sleepers, a man and a woman, remain unmoved, buried deep in their bed. A skeleton removing the hands of a clock wittily illustrates the sleepers’ disregard for the normal division between work and rest.