(Namur 7 July 1833- Essonnes 23 August 1898)
"LES PARADIS DE MAHOMET" [MOHAMMED'S PARADISE]
An erotic depiction with symbolic references characteristic of Félicien Rops.
Illustration for the "TABLEAUX DES MOEURS DU TEMPS DANS LES DIFFERENTS ÂGES DE LA VIE"
by M. Le Riche de la Popelinière. Printed and published in Paris, 1867.
Drawn and etched by Félicien Rops.
Original etching and drypoint printed on thin laid Japan paper.
SIZE: 73mm(H) x 64mm(L) [plate]
228mm(H) x 145mm(L) [sheet]
Excellent impression on thin laid Japan paper.
Full wide margins. Mounted at the top corners on collector's card.
FÉLICIEN VICTOR JOSEPH ROPS
(7 July 1833 / 23 August 1898)
Was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolisms and the Parisian Fin-de siècle.
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, Rops was greatly respected by his peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time and provided frontispieces and illustrations for J.B. d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, J.K. Huysmass, Stephane Mallarmé, Péladane, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others.
He is best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, although he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings.
Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics.