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19th century Belgian artist

Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (French pronunciation:[felisjɛ̃viktɔʁʒozɛfʁɔps]; 7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle.

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The Symbolist Belgian artist Félicien Rops had come to Paris in to study etching with Bracquemond and Jacquemart, the founders of the new Société des.

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Félicien Rops ( – ) was a Belgian artist, known primarily as a printmaker in etching and aquatint.

The Belgian Symbolist painter Felicien Rops explored the age-old theme of the Power of Women in six or seven drawings and watercolors from the s.

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.

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 oc