34 - Félicien Rops

Félicien Rops (Namur, 1833 – Corbeil, 1898) étude pour l’Ecchymose (Les sonnets du Docteur) Pencil, India ink, and India ink wash on paper Signed lower right Titled upper right: “1st study for Ecchymose (The Doctor’s Sonnets)” Provenance stamps 26.7 × 19 cm Félicien Rops illustrated the third edition of Georges Camuset’s erotic poems, *Les Sonnets du Docteur*, published in Paris in 1893, with two engravings. This drawing is the study for the illustration titled “L’Ecchymose” (Exsteens vol. III, no. 537). The five drawings presented here were part of the collection of the famous Belgian bibliophile and collector Carlo de Poortere. Provenance - Former collection of Carlo de Poortere, Belgium Littérature Félicien Rops, *Memoirs to Undermine the Art History of My Time*, Labor, 1998 Maurice Exsteens, *The Engraved and Lithographed Works of Félicien Rops*, Paris, Pellet, 1928, 4 vols. Michel Draguet, *The Drawing Collection: Rops*, Paris: Flammarion, 1998 Frits Lugt, *Collectors’ Marks on Drawings and Prints* | Custodia Foundation, online digital edition, L. 3467 and L. 3509