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Félicien Rops

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Muted painting of a river valley with barges and a green boat beneath steep, pale hillsides and an overcast sky.

Barges in Dinant

Loose oil landscape of a stone bridge over a river, wooded hills, a small house and a boat under an overcast sky.

Bridge over the River Lesse

Painting of a wooded rocky cliff above a green meadow under a pale sky, in loose brown and green brushwork.

Landscape in the Ardennes

1882

Painting of a rural village with thatched and timber houses, trees, a grassy field and a cloudy grey sky.

Landscape in Sweden

1871

Painting of rolling sandy dunes with scattered shrubs and a small tree under a pale overcast sky.

Heyst, 1881

1881

Etching by Félicien Rops with dark oval forms, faint hands and pale shapes on a light ground.

Le Découverte de l'Amérique

Etching with two sketches: a hand holding a lobster labeled Academie, and a seated woman in a hat beside a lamp.

Le Homard a la Coppée

Etching with an eye in a triangle, a mermaid, a skull, a palette with brushes and handwritten French captions.

Le Peinture érotique

Etching of two nude figures entwined diagonally on a hatched background, page 123 marked in lower left.

Le Pendu

Etching of an older man in a wide hat painting at an easel beside a calm river with trees and reeds.

Le Vieux Paysagiste

1880

Etching of a cloaked figure on windswept dunes beside a nude body lying on sand under a stormy sky.

Le Werwolf

1867

Etching of a boat above four sketched figures: a man in a top hat, a man in a bowler hat, and two women in bonnets.

Les Bateaux

Etching in a grid of eighteen vignettes showing women in dresses, dancing couples, men in top hats, and portrait heads.

Les Cythères Parisiennes

Dark monochrome print of a misty shoreline with grotesque serpentine creatures in the foreground and tall reeds at right.

Les Monstres ou la Genèse

Monochrome print of a reclining nude woman with a white drape over her hips against a dark, sweeping background.

Messalina

1889

Etching of a lion labeled Belgicus Leo beneath a frontier sign, with a cherub and scattered papers, and faint faces above.

Belgian Border, Bill of Disorder (Frontiere de Belgique. Billet a Desordre)

1871

Etching of two men in headwraps carrying a bundle of long branches on their shoulders against a pale background.

The Train of Maris (Le train de Maris)

Small etching of a reclining nude woman with her head resting on one arm, centered on a large cream sheet.

Liggend naakt

1893

Pencil sketch of two cover designs: a hunter with dogs and birds on the left, a shield-bearing woman and seated man on the ri

Cover designs for "Ulenspiegel au Salon"

ca. 1870

Pencil drawing of a wooden work table with a tilted drawing board, drawers, and handwritten measurements in centimetres.

Project for a work table

Sketch sheet of many small winged putti in varied poses, with a standing man in a coat at the right edge.

Sheet with putti and several figures

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a clergyman, sailboat, tree, reclining figure and lettering reading Anseremme.

Une Soirée Anseremme

1876

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of stooping peasant figures and a central loosely drawn group, with handwritten notes.

Sheet with various peasants

Pencil sketch of a standing figure in a wide-brimmed hat and long cloak against a shaded landscape with tall trees.

Shepherd

Pencil sketch of a crowded beach with bathing huts, tents, strollers in period dress, and people playing on the sand.

The Beach at Blankenberghe

1863

Pen-and-ink letter to Théo with a sketch of a seated figure against a bare tree trunk.

Letter to Theo Hanon, from Rops, signed Fély

Etching of nude cherub-like figures among roasting geese, a cash box and coins, with handwritten French captions.

Menu du diner de la Chronique

1869

Six oval portrait sketches of men in costume, labeled with character names from the play Nos Intimes, in soft grey shading.

Nos Intimes

Print of a reclining nude woman seen from behind while a horned devil holding a letter peers from the shadows.

La messagère du diable (The Devil's Messenger)

1880

Etching of a hunter in a cap lying prone on sand, aiming a rifle across an open dune landscape.

Jager ligt op de loer

1875

Etched visiting card with putti, banners and etching bottles advertising the Nys & Mommen printing workshop.

Visitekaartje van drukkerij Nys en Mommen

1869

Etching of a man in a cloak lying on sand, aiming a rifle across a flat landscape with a distant treeline.

Liggende schutter

1876

Etching of a rowboat on calm water beside a shoreline, with distant hills and two birds flying above.

Paysage à la barque

1880

Pen drawing of a man bent over raking ground toward the right, with a small tree at left and a printed programme heading abov

Peine

Etching of a man leaning over a rowboat on a misty river with trees and oars in the foreground.

July

n.d.

Etching of nude cherubs around a wooden printing press, with bottles labeled for etching lessons and banners reading Imprimer

The Press

1878

Etching of a nude woman lying on a dune while a cloaked figure with a pole stands on a ridge under a stormy sky by the sea.

The Werewolf

c. 1867

Sketch of Ferdinand Marinus

c. 1857

Etching of a worker with a scythe cutting grass in a field, with small head studies below.

Toil, II

n.d.

Etching by Félicien Rops showing a standing man in a coat, a head sketch, a rower in a boat, and mirrored lettering.

Pigeon-vole et La femme en toilette de ville

Irregular dark grainy tonal mass with feathered edges on a pale paper ground, resembling a soft-ground etching test.

Planche d'essai de Vernis Mou

Planche d'essais. Croquis par Rops et Hannon

Etching study with sketched male heads in hats, vertical hatching, bare trees at the bottom, and handwritten inscriptions.

Planche d'étude

Planche des quatre peintres ou Chez de Bériot

Etching by Félicien Rops showing a winged siren on a shore flanked by two Isis panels with nude figures and French captions.

Poisson rare

1876

Small etching of a reclining woman with her head on her arm, drawn in loose lines on a cream sheet.

Canicule

ca. 1882

Exhibition invitation card with a sketch of a bird wearing a hat and ribbon, and red printed text naming Félicien Rops.

Uitnodiging tentoonstelling Félicien Rops

1875

Etching of a woman in a flowered hat reading beneath a tree, with wildflowers in the foreground.

Printemps

1882

Pen drawing by Félicien Rops of a crowded spring festival with townspeople, animals, carts, banners, and a central fountain.

Printemps

1858

Printed page of numbered satirical sketches of Parisian theatre, ball and exhibition scenes with French captions.

Revue du mois

1858

Pen and ink sheet with figure studies: a female nude, a man's legs in boots, a torso, and hands, on a stained paper ground.

Studies of Female Nude, Hands, and Male Torso (recto); Landscape (verso)

Grey wash drawing of a winged demonic figure flying with spread wings and a raised fist against a shadowy background.

Satan créant les monstres

Pencil sketch of a horned figure leaping diagonally above a field of small marks, with falling spheres and a French caption.

Satan jetant à la terre la pature qu'elle attend

Pen-and-ink print of a crowded seaside pavilion with arched colonnades, seated figures, and a flying putto holding a banner.

Scene at a pavilion, crowded with people and putti with globe are floating in air

Two-page green-ink print with an allegorical France figure, Eiffel Tower, and palm frond border advertising Paris 1889 exposi

Tableau des curiositée et spectacles de Paris offert aux etrangers par L'Hotel Terminus

Pen drawing of a woman in a feathered hat and striped stockings beside a cherub, with the title Rimes de joie lettered at rig

Affichette pour Rimes de joie estampe (3e état), F.R, Félicien Rops

1881