The Man of Sorrows is an 1891 oil painting by the Flemish expressionist painter James Ensor.

This painting is enlisted on the official inventories of Flemish masterpieces and is a part of the great masters collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

[2] Ensor's use of the visual elements of a demon in The Man of Sorrows and generally in his religious paintings is significant.

[4] Representing himself deformed and in pain with a bleeding face reflects the artist's suffering and his interpretation of literal affliction.

The Man of Sorrows is a turning point in Ensor's career and it shows the artist's anger and his desire for resistance.