Artworks · Félicien Rops

The Hanged Man in the Forge

1875 · black chalk? and black crayon with stumping (scratched away in places); framing lines in black chalk?

Sheet: 27.8 x 22 cm (10 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Image: 20.9 x 13.3 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Taking Tea

1875 · Etching, soft varnish (vernis mou) and drypoint on ivory wove paper

Image: 23.6 × 15 cm (9 5/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Plate: 24.8 × 16 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 31.7 cm (17 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Model

1874 · Etching and aquatint on cream Japanese paper

Image: 10.5 × 7.3 cm (4 3/16 × 2 7/8 in.); Plate: 13.5 × 8.5 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 27.1 × 19.4 cm (10 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

1871 · etching

National Gallery of Art

The Red Iron (Le Fer Rouge)

1871 · etching

National Gallery of Art

Gaspard de la Nuit

1868 · etching

image: 5 9/16 x 3 7/16 in. (14.2 x 8.7 cm)

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece: The Waifs (Les Epaves)

1868 · etching

plate: 16 x 10.2 cm (6 5/16 x 4 in.) sheet: 20.6 x 14.4 cm (8 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece to Margot la Ravaudeuse

1868 · Etching on grayish ivory laid chine

Image: 12.1 × 7.8 cm (4 13/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Plate: 19.8 × 13 cm (7 13/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 17.8 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Little Girl

1868 · Graphite

6-1/16 x 4-9/16 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Les pècheurs virent dans la dune une fillette nue mordue au cou cruellement

1867 · etching on paper

height: 159 cm, width: 240 cm

Rijksmuseum

The Legend and Adventures of Ulenspiefel and Lamme Goedzak: The Hanged Man (La legende et les aventures d'Ulenspiegel et Lamme Goedzak: Le pendu)

1867 · etching and aquatint on chine collé

Sheet: 29.5 x 21.2 cm (11 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.); Platemark: 15.5 x 24 cm (6 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Frontispiece for Point de lendemain

1867 · Etching on gray China paper

Image: 9.4 × 5.9 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.); Sheet: 23.1 × 16.6 cm (9 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Drinker

1867 · Etching on gray chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 21 × 13.4 cm (8 5/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Plate: 24.1 × 16 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.); Primary support: 22.8 × 15.1 cm (9 × 6 in.); Secondary support: 29.7 × 22.1 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman with a Scottish Hat

1865 · Etching from a steel plate on cream wove paper

Image: 11.5 × 9.9 cm (4 9/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 13.3 × 12 cm (5 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet, folded: 43.7 × 35 cm (17 1/4 × 13 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of two figures, one lunging at the other

1865 · graphite

7 x 4-1/2 in. (17.8 x 11.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frontispiece: The Dregs of Society (Les bas-fonds de la societe)

1864 · etching

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece: The Dregs of Society (Las bas-fonds de la societe)

1864 · etching

National Gallery of Art

Le cabinet satyrique

1864 · Etching on gray chine

Image: 12.8 × 9 cm (5 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 22.3 × 15.6 cm (8 13/16 × 6 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Winter Evening

1863 · black crayon, black chalk and graphite (stumped and scraped away in places) and brush and gray wash and crayon, heightened with white chalk

Sheet: 16.2 x 23.3 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Beach at Blankenberghe

1863 · graphite

8-3/8 x 13-1/4 in. (21.3 x 33.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Werewolf

1862 · Etching, with engraving and roulette, on gray wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 12.5 × 20.4 cm (4 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Plate: 15.9 × 24.1 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Primary support: 13.3 × 20.3 cm (5 1/4 × 8 in.); Secondary support: 22.9 × 30 cm (9 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sacrifice, from "The Satanic Ones"

1862 · Soft-ground etching, reproduced in heliogravure

plate: 10 7/8 x 8 in. (27.6 x 20.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sheet with figures, details of hands and feet

1860 · Graphite

sheet: 8-3/4 x 6-7/16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study of a man pushing a plow

1860 · Pen and black ink

sheet: 5-7/8 x 4-1/8

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Monsieur Dubois, curate of St. Pierre...

1857 · Lithograph in black (with letterpress on verso) on ivory wove paper

Image: 28.9 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet: 41.4 × 30.7 cm (16 5/16 × 12 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Menus propos

1857 · Lithograph (with letterpress on verso) on ivory wove paper

Image: 28.8 × 20.5 cm (11 3/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 32.6 cm (17 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Last Flemish, I

1857 · Lithograph in black, with scraping, on gray chine, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)

Image: 27.4 × 19.9 cm (10 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Primary support: 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 44.5 × 34 cm (17 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Crinolinographies (Costume de la magistrature proposé pour 1857)

1856 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Poetry IV

1856 · Lithograph in black, with scraping (with letterpress on verso), on ivory wove paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 27 × 18.9 cm (10 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Primary support: 37.6 × 28.2 cm (14 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 37.8 × 28.4 cm (14 15/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Invitation to a concert

1853 · Pen and black ink on cream paper, tipped onto blue-green wove paper

Primary support: 9.7 × 9.1 cm (3 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 21.9 cm (8 3/4 × 8 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Man with Extended Left Arm

1853 · Pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash and black crayon, over graphite, on cream laid paper

32.7 × 24.3 cm (12 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Absinthe Drinker

1853 · Heliogravure on ivory wove paper

Image: 33.5 × 22.5 cm (13 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Plate: 38.5 × 25.6 cm (15 3/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 31.1 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Lupanie

1853 · Etching on paper

Sheet: 26 × 18 cm (10 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Plate: 13 × 6.9 cm (5 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.); Image: 9.4 × 5.7 cm (3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1853 · Colored pencil and graphite (recto) and black pencil (verso) on tan laid paper, tipped onto tan wove paper

32.7 × 25.4 cm (12 7/8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flemish Market-Gardener

1853 · Drypoint on ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 4.5 × 4.3 cm (1 13/16 × 1 3/4 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 22.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Siren

1853 · Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

Image: 25.5 × 12.3 cm (10 1/16 × 4 7/8 in.); Plate: 26.4 × 13.3 cm (10 7/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet, folded: 44.9 × 32.3 cm (17 11/16 × 12 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Middle-Class

1853 · Drypoint on ivory China paper

Image: 20.1 × 15.1 cm (7 15/16 × 6 in.); Plate: 20.1 × 15.1 cm (7 15/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 44.2 × 28.4 cm (17 7/16 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Young Breton Woman

1853 · Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper

Image: 9 × 6.2 cm (3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Plate: 9.7 × 7 cm (3 7/8 × 2 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 17.5 cm (10 7/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Toil, II

1853 · Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper

Image: 14.1 × 21.7 cm (5 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Plate: 14.1 × 21.8 cm (5 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Sheet: 29.4 × 44.6 cm (11 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hodgepodge

1853 · Soft varnish etching (vernis mou), with aquatint and drypoint, in gray and black on cream wove paper

Image: 14.9 × 10.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.); Plate: 15 × 10.6 cm (5 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.9 × 27.5 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Between Acts or the Englishwoman of the New Ballet

1853 · Heliogravure in black on Japanese paper vellum

Image: 16.4 × 10 cm (6 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 19 × 14 cm (7 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 29.1 × 19 cm (11 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Parallelism

1853 · Heliogravure on cream wove paper

Image: 30.6 × 19 cm (12 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 33.5 × 21.2 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 45.4 × 34.4 cm (17 7/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Temptation or the Apple

1853 · Heliogravure, with hand-coloring, on cream wove paper

Image: 18.1 × 13.4 cm (7 3/16 × 5 5/16 in.); Plate: 25 × 17.1 cm (9 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet, folded: 45.3 × 33.9 cm (17 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Crimson Curtain

1853 · Heliogravure, with aquatint and soft varnish ("vernis mou") on cream wove paper

Image: 23.7 × 16.5 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.); Plate: 28.3 × 20.8 cm (11 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45.3 × 34.4 cm (17 7/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

July

1853 · Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper

Image: 15.6 × 24.4 cm (6 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Plate: 16.6 × 25.5 cm (6 9/16 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 33.7 × 45.3 cm (13 5/16 × 17 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

For You General!

1853 · Aquatint and drypoint in black on cream laid paper

Image: 13.2 × 9.6 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.); Plate: 13.2 × 9.6 cm (5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 32.1 cm (16 1/2 × 12 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sketch of Ferdinand Marinus

1852 · Graphite, with red Conté crayon and black crayon, on grayish-ivory wove paper, tipped on cream laid paper

13.9 × 16.1 cm (5 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ostend (Seul avec l'ocean sous le regard de Dieu!)

1851 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art