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Felicien Rops

By Patrick Bade

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Felicien Rops (1833-1898) is a very surprising artist. Engraver and drawer of exception, Felicien Rops captures and anticipates, with astonishing talent, the female body with great modernity. Abandoning the conventional forms of the time, the artist creates a world full of humour, tenderness and, at times, insolence for the jubilation of the spectator's eye. Many of Rops' most famous works dealt with erotic and sensual themes, often depicting nudes or scenes of debauchery. He also frequently incorporated elements of the supernatural and the macabre, such as skeletons or demons, into his works. Some of his pieces were overtly political or social in nature, often criticizing the hypocrisy of the Church or the bourgeoisie. Overall, Rops' art is complex, multifaceted, and often confrontational. It challenged societal norms and pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable in art during his time.

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11. Photograph of Félicien Rops, 1879.

2630. Parodie Humaine, 1878-1881. Sketch in the collection: Cent légers croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens, 22 x 14,5 cm. Namur.

22. Self-portrait, ca. 1860, pencil drawing, 16,2 x 11,2 cm.

2731. Le Rideau Cramoisi, 1879. Pencil and gouache, 24,9 x 17,9 cm. Brussels.

33. Don Juan’s Greatest Love, 1879. Pencil drawing, 24,2 x 16,5 cm.

2832. Sentimental Initiation, 1887. Pencil and watercolour, 29,2 x 18,2 cm. Louvre Museum. Paris.

44. Gustave Moreau, Salome tatooe, 1876. Gustave Moreau Museum, Paris.

2933. Naturalia, ca. 1875. Watercolour, pencil and gouache, 27 x 19,5 cm. Brussels.

55. Munch, Puberty, 1894. Oil on canvas, 151,5 x 110 cm, National Gallery of Norway, Oslo.

3034. Death at the Ball, ca. 1865-75. Oil on canvas, 151 x 85 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

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66. Edgar Degas, Woman with a towel, 1898. Pastel, 95,4 x 75,5 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

3135. Dancing Death, ca. 1865. Pencil and white chalk, 25 x 13 cm, Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

77. The Model, ca. 1864. Charcoal, watercolour and gouache, 28,5 x 22 cm, Brussels.

3236. Les Diaboliques: The Sphynx, 1879. Illustration for Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Les Diaboliques (Paris, 1884). Pencil and watercolour, 25 x 18 cm. Brussels.

88. Edgar Degas, Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando, 1879. Oil on canvas, 117 x 77.5 cm, National Gallery, London.

3337. Epidemies, Endemies, 1870. Ink, 15.5 x 23.5 cm. Brussels.

99. Gustave Courbet, Sleep, 1866. Oil on canvas. Petit Palais, Paris.

3438. The Librarian, ca. 1878-80. Pencil and gouache, 22 x 14.5 cm. Namur.

1010. The Row, 1874. Watercolour, 70 x 49 cm, private collection, Brussels.

3539. Two Friends, ca. 1880-90. Watercolour, 30,5 x 21 cm. Namur.

1112. The Puppet Mistress, ca. 1883-1885. Watercolour and coloured pencil, 38.5 x 26.5 cm, Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

3640. Prehistoric Love, ca. 1878. Coloured pencil, gouache and watercolour, 30.5 x 23.6 cm. Namur.

1215. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1878. Couloured pencil, 73,8 x 54,3 cm, Brussels.

3741. The Right to Work - The Right to Rest, ca. 1868. Mixed technique. Brussels.

1316. Pornocrates, 1878. Watercolour, pastel and gouache, 75 x 48 cm, Namur.

3842. In the Wings, ca. 1879-1881. Coloured pencil, pastel and watercolour, 22 x 14.5 cm. Collection privée, Brussels.

1417. Munch, The Cry, 1893. Oil and pastel on board, 91 x 73.5 cm. National Gallery of Norway, Oslo.

3943. Nubility, ca. 1878-1890. Print with drawing in the margin, 39 x 30.5 cm. Brussels.

1518. Edouard Manet, The Brandy, ca. 1877-78. Oil on canvas, 73,6 x 50,2 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

4044. Sunday at Bougival, 1876. Oil on paper mounted on weed, 44 x 66 cm. Felicen Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

1619. The Absinthe Drinker, 1876. Heliogravure, 38,4 x 25 cm, Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

4145. Sailors’ Dive, 1875. Watercolour, pastel and gouache, 60.5 x 46.5 cm. Namur, Belgium.

1720. Edgar Degas, In a Café, also called The Absinthe-Drinker, 1875-76. Oil on canvas, 92 x 68 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

4246. The Dressing, ca. 1878-1881. Watercolour, coloured pencil, 22 x 14.5 cm. Paris.

1821. L’Amour Mouché, 1878-1881. Sketch in the collection: Cent légers croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens, 21.8 x 14.8 cm, Namur.

4347. The Christ’s Lover (l’Amante du Christ), 1888. Pencil, 39 x 26 cm. Brussels.

1922. Cherub’s Song, 1878-1881. Sketch in the collection: Cent légers croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens, 22 x 15 cm. Namur.

4448. Les Diaboliques: A un dîner d’Athées (Dinner for Atheists), 1879. Pencil, 24.4 x 18.5 cm. Brussels.

2023. The Scales at Cythera, 1871-1881. Frontispiece for the sixth set of ten poems in the collection: Cent légers croquis pour réjouir les honnêtes gens, watercolour and black pencil, 22 x 15 cm. Namur.

4549. Le Cathéchisme des Gens Mariés, 1881. Heliogravure, 14.9 x 11.7 cm, Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium.

2124. The Love Fair, 1885. Pencil and watercolour, 27 x 20,5 cm. Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

4650. Les Sataniques: The Kidnapping, 1882. Heliogravure, 28.2 x 20.9 cm. Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

2225. Love through the Ages, 1885. Drawing used as an illustration for Octave Uzanne’s Son Altesse la femme, (Paris, 1885), 30,5 x 23,6 cm. Namur.

4753. Les Sataniques: The Sacrifice, 1882. Watercolour, pencil and gouache, 28.5 x 18 cm. Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

2326. The Incantation, ca. 1878. This drawing also known as The Alchemist featured in Son Altesse la femme by Octave Uzanne (Paris, 1885), 32 x 18 cm. Namur.

4854. Les Diaboliques: le Dessous de Cartes d’une Partie de Whist (The Hidden Side of a whist Game), 1884. Heliogravure.

2427. The Great Lyre, 1887. Frontispiece for Stéphane Mallarmé Poésies (Paris, 1887). Heliogravure, 21.7 x 14,7 cm. Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium.

4955. Les Diaboliques: Le Bonheur dans le crime, 1884. Pencil drawing, 28,5 x 19 cm.

2529. Medical illustration of Secondary Syphilis. Authors collection.