Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man is an 1891 oil painting by the Belgian symbolist painter James Ensor which is in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

[1] The work depicts an on-stage drama in which two skeletons dressed in masks and women's clothing are fighting with traditional female weapons such as brooms and umbrellas.

Behind them hangs a dead body described as "civet", the French description for a hare stew.

In both wings extras wearing masks and carrying knives are watching the fight.

[2] One misogynistic interpretation of the work is that the two quarrelling women represent Ensor's wife and mistress and he the helpless body over which they fight.