Portrait of Monsieur Dubois, curate of St. Pierre...
Félicien Rops
1857
Medium
Lithograph in black (with letterpress on verso) on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.9 × 20.2 cm (11 7/16 × 8 in.); Sheet: 41.4 × 30.7 cm (16 5/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61019
About the Artist
Félicien Rops · 1833–1898
Félicien Rops, born Félicien Victor Joseph Rops on July 7, 1833, in Namur, Belgium, to a prosperous textile manufacturing family, displayed prodigious artistic talent from youth. The only child of Nicholas Rops and Sophie Maubile, he received private tutoring until age ten, followed by education at a Jesuit school in Namur (1843–1848), the Athénée Royal de Namur, and the Academy of Fine Arts there...