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Félicien Rops

Farewell at the Parc d'Auteuil (Les Adieux d'Auteuil), 1869

Description

Maker

  • Félicien Rops, 1833-1898, Belgian

Title

Farewell at the Parc d'Auteuil (Les Adieux d'Auteuil)

Year

1869

Medium

Etching, drypoint, and aquatint on white-colored, slightly textured laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • plate tone,
  • aquatint

Supports

  • Light weight Oriental cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 28.8 x 17.8 cm (11 5/16 x 7 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto: in pencil along bottom edge on left:E.216 I R.30 (?unique theme) Les Adieux d' Auteil; in LR:rns 7In Plate--Verso:in pencil in LL:79 (within a circle); in LR:54 (within a circle)

Identification

State

i/v

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

75.049

Projects & Publications

Publications

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

Rops’s etchings were actively sought after by collectors—probably due, in part, to the sexual suggestiveness of images such as this pair. Two fashionable women are seen kissing in a wooded area of the Bois de Boulogne, a Parisian park, hinting at a secret meeting. Rops often made prints in many states with varied tonalities, such as the near reversal in coloration seen here. He accomplished this shift by leaving ink on the surface of the plate while reprinting. In addition to formal experimentation, such variation was a savvy marketing strategy, and enthusiasts of Rops’s work often worked to obtain many or all existing states of his prints.

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