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Le Roi Peste (1895)
Etching (95 x 116 mm), HAND COLOURED, signed in pencil 'James Ensor 1895' on simili-japon paper, passe-partout
"Taevernier nr. 100, no states; Delteil 100 ; X. Tricot nr. 95A. Illustration of an Edgar Allan Poe tale. Ensor visualizes the scene in which two drunken sailors find themselves facing monstrous figures around a table in the cellar of an undertaker's shop. King Pest, who is presiding over the gathering and terrorizes the town, is offended and sentences the sailors to be drowned in barrels of beer."