Artist: Félicien Rops (1833 - 1898)
Technique: Photogravures with additional etching after drawings by the Belgian artist Felicien Rops
State: Good
Signature: No
Sale with frame: No
Size picture (in cm): 8.7 cm x 5.9 cm (Moet 12.3 cm x 9 cm)
Dimensions of the work: 16.6 cm x 14 cm
Obtained: Private collection
Remarks: From his bookshop at Passage Choiseul, 23-33, Alphonse Lemerre (1838-1912) sold the portfolio of ten provocative prints for the 1874 short story collection Les Diaboliques by Jules Amédées Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808-1889). The prints are described on the title-page, and by bibliographer Erastène Ramiro, as etchings but except for the frontispiece (a portrait of the author engraved by Raul Rajon (1843-1888)), they are all photogravures with additional etching after drawings by the Belgian artist Felicien Rops (1833-1898). The copper plates were printed by Alfred Salmon (1825-ca. 1894), who was at this time in partnership with Adolphe Ardail (1835-1911), trading as Salmon & Ardail.
Ramiro 1893 / Catalogue Descriptif Analytique de l'Oeuvre gravé de Félicien Rops (pp. 256- 266)
Mascha 1910 / Félicien Rops und sein Werk (844, 847, 849, 851, 853, 855, 857, 860, 862)
The last picture is not included, it shows the map in which the objects were sold
