The son of a wealthy textile manufacturer, Félicien Joseph Victor Rops was educated by private tutors before moving to the Jesuit College in his Belgian hometown of Namur. Even at a young age, he was a talented draftsman who also liked to caricature his teachers. Whether the unflattering caricatures were the reason why he was expelled from the Jesuit College in 1849? We can only speculate about that. In any case, he transferred to the Royal Athenaeum and soon enrolled at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Much to the annoyance of his uncle, who had taken over Félicien's guardianship after his father's death. In the end, the nephew learned, among other things, how to draw nudes at the Académie. The young Rops, however, did not let his uncle's disapproval stop him from pursuing his artistic career. He enrolled at the University of Brussels. There he also became a member of the "Club des Crocodiles," which published its own magazine for which he produced drawings and biting caricatures. Together with Charles de Coster, he also founded the magazine "Uylenspiegel". The caricatures he contributed here were also sold as offprints and gained notoriety as a result. After his marriage to Charlotte Polet de Faveaux, who soon gave birth to a son, he had to severely limit his involvement with the publication and finally end it. Charlotte was the daughter of the president of the court, and it was simply not appropriate for his husband to work as a caricaturist. Without him, the magazine then also slowly went.
Nevertheless, he remained friends with Charles de Coster and worked for him as an illustrator. Among other things, he provided the illustrations for his works "Legéndes flamandes" or "La Légende de Uylenspiegel". It was also during this time that he met the publisher Auguste Poulet-Malassis. He commissioned him to illustrate 34 works, including Beaudelaire's poems. As a result, Rops soon became one of the best-paid illustrators in Paris and found himself among the most important authors of the time. In the wake of these bohemian celebrities were the Duluc sisters, Léontine and Aurélie, fashion designers by trade. Félicien fell madly in love - with both ladies. His wife refused to divorce him, but that did not prevent him from living with the sisters and fathering offspring. His daughter Claire from the relationship with Léontine later became the wife of the Belgian writer Eugène Demolder.
As much as Rops enjoyed the life and pleasures of the French capital in his younger years, he appreciated tranquility in his final years. He bought an estate south of Paris and grew roses there. Here, too, Léontine and Aurélie were by his side. They were also the ones who nursed him when he suffered eye damage from an accident with chemicals. Fortunately, it did not lead to blindness, so Félicien Joseph Victor Rops could draw until his death.
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.jpg "Capital Punishment: The Pain of Death, c. 1880 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Winter Evening, Last Third 19th Century by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1368994).jpg "Two Women and a Man with Top Hat (The Three Contemporaries) by Albert Bertrand")
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.jpg "Portrait of Monsieur Dubois, Curate of St. Pierre by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1255234).jpg "Frontispiece: The Dregs of Society by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Legend and Adventures of Ulenspiefel and Lamme Goedzak: The Hanged Man by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1247567).jpg "Frontispiece: The Waifs by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Hanged Man in the Forge, c. 1880 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Demon of Covettery: a monstrous reflection of a woman looking at herself in a mirror,")
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.jpg "Half-Naked Woman with Stick Leaning Over Large Book by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Between Acts or the Englishwoman of the New Ballet by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1368771).jpg "Standing Woman with Gloves and Small Hat by Albert Bertrand")
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.jpg "Street Corner, Four in the Morning Parodie Humaine by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Legend and Adventures of Ulenspiefel and Lamme Goedzak: The Hanged Man by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Female Sphinx or Parallel by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Supreme Vice: Frontispiece by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Poster for an Exhibition, 1896 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Hanging of Levallois-Perret by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Le Vice Suprême: Frontispiece, 1884 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece: The Dregs of Society, 1864 by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1238289).jpg "The Sparrow of Lesbie by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece for Rimes de Joie by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Modesty of Sodom by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Hanging of Levallois-Perret by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Ostend. Alone with the Ocean under the Gaze of God! by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Washerwomen, c.1884-1887 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece: The Waifs by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece to Les Baisers Morts by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Toil, II by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece to The Dead Kisses by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Pornokrates (Naked woman, eyes strips, surrounded by angels and holding a pig on a leash) - drawing by Felicien Rops (1833-1898) by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Gaspard of the Night by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Greatest Love of Don Juan by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Temptation or the Apple by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Prostitution and Madness Dominate the World by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Train of Maris by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Invitation to a Concert by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Study for The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1878 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The School of the Ideal; Little Eyolf by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Model by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece for Point de Lendemain by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece: The Dregs of Society, 1864 by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Woman with a Carcel Lamp by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-903714).jpg "Dance Folie by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Frontispiece to La messe de Gnide by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Last Maja by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Seated Man with Extended Left Arm by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Pornokrates, a Picture of Woman as Eternal Temptress and Daughter of Eve by Felicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1251909).jpg "The Falconer by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Werewolf by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Crimson Curtain by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Gaspard de la Nuit by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Satan Sowing Tare by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Last Flemish, I by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1238767).jpg "Lace Appraiser by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Vengeance of a Woman by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "Lady with a Lorgnette by Félicien Rops")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1303971).jpg "Crinolinographies (Costume of the Magistracy Proposed for 1857) by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "A Document on the Impotence of Love by Félicien Rops")
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.jpg "The Parable of the Sower by Félicien Rops")
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