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Félicien Rops

1833 - 1898

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Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio (etching and aquatint). Although not well known to the general public, Rops was greatly respected by his peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Félicien Rops has received more than 388,719 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Félicien Rops is the 277th most popular painter (up from 355th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 129th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Belgian Painter.

Félicien Rops is most famous for his erotic art, which often features sexually explicit imagery.

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  • 28

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  • 8.85

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  • 1.88

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Félicien Rops ranks 277 out of 1,421Before him are Jacques Callot, Balthus, Martin Schongauer, Paul Delaroche, James Tissot, and Norman Rockwell. After him are Carlo Crivelli, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Jacopo Bassano, Joachim Patinir, Félix Vallotton, and Salvator Rosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Félicien Rops ranks 10Before him are Wilhelm Dilthey, Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Benjamin Harrison, Élie Ducommun, Alfred von Schlieffen, and Ferdinand von Richthofen. After him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Léon Bonnat, Edward Burne-Jones, Eugen Dühring, Charles George Gordon, and Kido Takayoshi. Among people deceased in 1898, Félicien Rops ranks 15Before him are Ivan Shishkin, Johann Jakob Balmer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Newlands, Charles Garnier, and Aubrey Beardsley. After him are Heungseon Daewongun, Henry Bessemer, Syed Ahmad Khan, William Ewart Gladstone, Eleanor Marx, and Theodor Fontane.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Félicien Rops ranks 101 out of 1,019Before him are Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (1350), Philippe de Champaigne (1602), Auguste Beernaert (1829), Émile Verhaeren (1855), Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1673), and Peyo (1928). After him are Gilles Binchois (1400), Joachim Patinir (1480), Gerard de Ridefort (1141), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858), Paul Delvaux (1897), and Frans Snyders (1579).

Among PAINTERS In Belgium

Among painters born in Belgium, Félicien Rops ranks 17Before him are Petrus Christus (1410), Quentin Matsys (1466), Hubert van Eyck (1366), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), Pieter Claesz (1596), and Philippe de Champaigne (1602). After him are Joachim Patinir (1480), Paul Delvaux (1897), Frans Snyders (1579), Karel van Mander (1548), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), and David Teniers the Younger (1610).