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Félicien Rops
1833–1898 · Belgian
- Born
- 1833 · Namur
- Died
- 1898 · Essonnes
71 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Félicien Rops was a Belgian artist, known as a painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and printmaker. He produced prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature, as well as oil paintings and is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics.
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Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (French: [felisjɛ̃ viktɔʁ ʒozɛf ʁɔps]; 7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, and was a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio (etching and aquatint). Although not well known to the general public and initially sought after as a pornographer, Rops was greatly respected by his bohemian peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time. He provided frontispieces and illustrations for works by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. Best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings. Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics.
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Registered works
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In museum collections
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In gallery collections
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Featured works
Selected registered works by Félicien Rops
Selected from 71 works by Félicien Rops in the Collect24 Registry.
Félicien Rops
Une Soirée Anseremme, 1876
Pen and black ink
20.8 × 30.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-502343
Félicien Rops
Little Girl, 1873
Graphite
15.4 × 11.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-477150
Félicien Rops
Modernité, 1883
Drypoint; second state of five
46 × 29 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-288246
Félicien Rops
Cover designs for "Ulenspiegel au Salon", ca. 1870
graphite, highlighted with pen and black ink
21.9 × 35.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-577534
Félicien Rops
The Lace-Maker, 1876
Graphite, gum arabic, locally scratched
40 × 29.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-568049
Félicien Rops
Sketch Sheet, 1878
Pen and black ink
22.2 × 20.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-502708
Félicien Rops
The Beach at Blankenberghe, 1863
Graphite
21.3 × 33.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-478074
Félicien Rops
The Sacrifice, from "The Satanic Ones", ca. 1882
Soft-ground etching, reproduced in heliogravure
27.6 × 20.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-435449
Félicien Rops
The Legend and Adventures of Ulenspiefel and Lamme Goedzak: The Hanged Man (La legende et les aventures d'Ulenspiegel et Lamme Goedzak: Le pendu), 1867
etching and aquatint on chine collé
29.5 × 21.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-283346
Félicien Rops
Canicule, ca. 1882
Drypoint
10 × 15 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-261361
Félicien Rops
Landscape in the Ardennes, 1882
oil on canvas
22 × 37 cm
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
C24-144705
Félicien Rops
Beach, 19th century
oil on canvas marbled on panel
25.5 × 35.5 cm
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
C24-144591
Museums and collections
Where works by Félicien Rops are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
43 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
9 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
8 works
- Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
5 works
- Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
4 works
- Finnish National Gallery
Helsinki, Finland
1 work
- Valkhof Museum
Netherlands
1 work
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