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His object, like that of Moreau, was to portray Evil incarnate in woman -- a portrayal which Rops intended to be satirical, but which, owing to his excessive complaisance with the subject, he could not raise above the level of mere illustration, often pornographic.
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Félicien Rops Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Félicien Rops available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Felicien Rops Museum, Namur, Belgium
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Sentimental Initiation
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
6 works online
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Arterotismo (contains nudity)
Collection of Rops' erotic works
Felicien Rops at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Venus with Small Satyrs
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Kilidavid
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Felicien Rops 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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