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Félicien Rops

1833 - 1898

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Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (French: [felisjɛ̃ viktɔʁ ʒozɛf ʁɔps]; 7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian fin de siècle, a member of the Les XX group. 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 and initially sought after as a pornographer, Rops was greatly respected by his bohemian peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time. He provided frontispieces and illustrations for works by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Félicien Rops is the 330th most popular painter (down from 296th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 104th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Belgian Painter.

Félicien Rops is most famous for his erotic art, which often features sexually explicit imagery.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Félicien Rops ranks 330 out of 2,023. Before him are Taddeo Gaddi, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Max Liebermann, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi. After him are Thomas Couture, Léon Bakst, Willem de Kooning, Louis Wain, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Adriaen Brouwer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Félicien Rops ranks 13. Before him are Benjamin Harrison, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Alfred von Schlieffen, J. E. B. Stuart, and Jonas Lie. After him are Eugen Dühring, Léon Bonnat, Edward Burne-Jones, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Charles George Gordon, and Kido Takayoshi. Among people deceased in 1898, Félicien Rops ranks 17. Before him are Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Ferdinand Cohn, Aubrey Beardsley, and Charles Garnier. After him are Theodor Fontane, Eleanor Marx, John Newlands, Heungseon Daewongun, Henry Bessemer, and Frances Willard.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Félicien Rops ranks 116 out of 1,190. Before him are Justus Lipsius (1547), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502), Peyo (1928), Jean-Marie Pfaff (1953), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858), and Elio Di Rupo (1951). After him are Leo Baekeland (1863), Henri Pirenne (1862), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Paul Deschanel (1855), and Jacques Arcadelt (1507).

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Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Félicien Rops ranks 20. Before him are Paul Delvaux (1897), Joachim Patinir (1480), Pieter Claesz (1596), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), Karel van Mander (1548), and Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502). After him are Adriaen Brouwer (1605), Frans Snyders (1579), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Bartholomeus Spranger (1546), and Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759).

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