ROPS DANIELLivre Rare Book
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1876963Paris: Cadart & Luquet 1876. Etching on watermarked D & C Blauw cream laid paper 6 x 9 1/4 inches 151 x 234 mm full margins. Significant toning handling creases and some mottling due to moisture in the lower sheet area and into the image. There is some edge wear and creasing as well as paper tape remnants along the top sheet edge verso. Félicien Victor Joseph Rops 7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898 was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. 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 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 occasional genre paintings. Cadart & Luquet unknown
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