Felicien Rops

Félicien Rops (7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint. Like the works of Charles Baudelaire, whose poetry he illustrated, his best work mingled sex, death, and Satanic images. He was closely associated with the literary movement of Symbolism and Decadence, and was one of the founding members of Société Libre des Beaux-Arts of Brussels (Free Society of Fine Arts, 1868--1876) and Les XX ("The Twenty," formed 1883).

Félicien Rops (7 July 1833 - 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint. Like the works of Charles Baudelaire, whose poetry he illustrated, his best work mingled sex, death, and Satanic images. He was closely associated with the literary movement of Symbolism and Decadence, and was one of the founding members of Société Libre des Beaux-Arts of Brussels (Free Society of Fine Arts, 1868--1876) and Les XX ("The Twenty," formed 1883). See less