, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Peculiar Insects, 1888
James Ensor
Belgian, 1860
- 1949
drypoint on wove paper
14 x 19.6 cm; plate: 11.8 x 15.8 cm
Purchased 1975
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18366)
© Estate of James Ensor / SABAM (Brussels) / SODRAC (Montréal)
The oddball Ensor was a recluse in his native Ostend, but flourished briefly in Brussels in the cultivated company of the Rousseau family. This is a double-portrait of Ensor and his protector, Mariette Rousseau, wife of Ernest Rousseau, physics professor and rector (from 1884 to 1886) of the University of Brussels. Their son, also named Ernest, was an entomologist who became Ensor's lifelong friend. For unknown reasons, Ensor has placed Mariette's head on the body of a dragonfly and his own head on that of a May-bug. Ensor's other self-portraits are similarly peculiar.
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