Le Gandin Ivre

Museums of Namur | Félicien Rops Museums | Exhibition | Guided tour

To be contemporary, modern, to live your era to its full, to penetrate into the feelings, the ideas of the time and to give them expression and shape, this was the essential approach of Rops. He was to find this modernity in Paris; Paris and her cabarets, her "lowest depths", her night life and her ambiguous pleasures ...

This work takes us into the Parisian brothels with the new theme of "the whore with the heart". This is close in spirit to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and also to the writings of Zola, the Goncourt or Maupassant ...

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