"La Femme Et La Folie Dominent Le Monde Ii" - 1886 Print by Félicien Rops

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"La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde II" - 1886 Print on Paper
("The Woman and the Madness Overlooking … Read more "La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde II" - 1886 Print on Paper
("The Woman and the Madness Overlooking The World II")

1886 French illustration from Felicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898) depicting a young partially nude brunette woman. The woman is standing facing the viewer, one hand holding back her long hair, the other hand holding a draped cloth around her body. The woman appears standing upon a hilltop, in front of a dark background.

Presented in a blue/grey mat.

Mat: 12"H x 9"W
Paper: 7 1/2"H x 5 1/2"W
Image: 5 3/4"H x 4 1/4"W

Félicien Victor Joseph Rops 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 and 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.

He is best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, although he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings. Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics. See less