Félicien Rops - the Etching Techniques

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

• Lithography
• Etching
• Aquatint
• Dry Point
• Heliogravure

Like Baudelaire, Rops was one of the "last satanists" of the century.
The woman, death, Satan are to be found to the same extent in both their poems and art. Here death is represented by a woman, her face with empty eye-sockets, a grimacing smile. But the figure is not fully a "skeleton", her feminine attributes, as Karl-Joris Huysmans once said "places favourable to the madness of men", are still visible.

We can also discern several characteristics of Rops' style, the hat with flowers, the long black gloves, the hitched up skirt, the charming slipper decorated with a pompon ..., a complete language of desire which many others were to follow, from Yvette Gilbert to Gilda.

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