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Félicien Rops

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Félicien Rops (7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist, known primarily as a printmaker in etching and aquatint.

Early life

Rops was born in Namur, the only son of Sophie Maubile and Nicholas Rops,[1] who was a textile manufacturer.[2] After his first artistic training at a local academy, he relocated to Brussels at the age of twenty[2] and briefly attended the University of Brussels.[3] He subsequently attended the Académie de Saint-Luc and began creating satirical lithographs which were published in the student magazine Le Crocodile.

These and the lithographs he contributed until 1862 to the magazine Uylenspiegel brought him early fame as a caricaturist.[2]

In 1857, he married Charlotte Polet de Faveaux, with whom he had two children, Paul and Juliette (the latter died at a young age).[1] He produced a number of etchings as illustrations for books by Charles de