Tag: Les Diaboliques

À un dîner d’athées, ca. 1883

Félicien Rops :: À un dîner d'athées (The Dinner of the Atheists). Graphite, pencil and brown chalk, partly wiped, erased and scratched, on white primed paper, drawn up. Around 1883-85. | src Bassenge Auktionen
Félicien Rops :: À un dîner d’athées (The Dinner of the Atheists). Graphite, pencil and brown chalk, partly wiped, erased and scratched, on white primed paper, drawn up. Around 1883-85. | src Bassenge Auktionen

The present sheet belongs to the group of drawings that the Belgian artist Félicien Rops created from around 1883 for the short story collection Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808-1889).

Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898) :: At an Atheist Dinner-Party, 1882–89. Heliogravure retouched with aquatint and soft varnish (vernis mou) in black on thick cream wove paper. | src AIC
Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898) :: At an Atheist Dinner-Party, 1882–89. Heliogravure retouched with aquatint and soft varnish (vernis mou) in black on thick cream wove paper. | src AIC