Félicien Rops
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Félicien Rops 🇧🇪

Félicien Rops (Known as "Rops")
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Born Jul 07, 1833 🇧🇪 Namur, Belgium
Passed Away Aug 23, 1898 Essonnes, French Third Republic
Lifespan 65 years old
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"My only ambition is to paint the vices and absurdities of my century."

Archival Overview

Belgian Symbolist printmaker and illustrator whose dark, erotic, and satirical prints—such as 'Pornokrates'—illustrated Baudelaire and captured the decadent spirit of late 19th-century Europe.

Biographical Record

Félicien Rops (1833–1898 CE) was a close friend of poet Charles Baudelaire, moving from Brussels to Paris to become the premier illustrator of Symbolist and Decadent literature.

His masterwork Pornokrates (The Lady with the Pig) depicted a blindfolded modern woman in black silk gloves leading a pig on a gold leash, satirizing modern luxury, lust, and hypocrisy.

Key Life Milestones

1866

Frontispiece for Baudelaire's Les Épaves

Created the iconic macabre frontispiece for Baudelaire's banned poetry collection, sealing their artistic alliance.

1878

Pornokrates (The Lady with the Pig)

Completed his famous gouache drawing of a blindfolded woman walking a pig on a leash above personifications of the arts.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Belgrade Cemetery
Namur, Belgium
GPS: 50.4678, 4.8672
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