The Sphinx

Félicien Joseph Victor Rops, Artist A. Salmon, Printer Alphonse Lemerre, Publisher

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The Sphinx

1886

Félicien Joseph Victor Rops (Artist) Belgian, 1833-1898 A. Salmon (Printer) French, 1800-1900 Alphonse Lemerre (Publisher) French

sheet: 7 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. 18.7 x 13.7 cm impression: 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. 12.4 x 8.9 cm

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of the Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library

F82.70.2

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On plate, lower left: Felicien Rops del. & sc.

Lower right: A. Lemerre Ed.; lower center: Imp. A. Salmon.

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Formerly in the collection of: F.W. Robinson

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Ramiro, Erastene, CATALOGUE DESCRIPTIF ET ANALYTIQUE DE L'OEUVRE GRAVE DE FELICIEN ROPS, Brussels/Paris: Daman, Floury, 1887/1894, 1895, no 339.

Mascha, Ottokar, FELICIEN ROPS UND SEIN WERK, Munchen: Albert Langen, 1910, no 844.

Exsteens, Maurice, L'OEUVRE GRAVE ET LITHOGRAPHIE DE FELICIEN ROPS, Paris: Editions Pellet, 1928, no 505.

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Félicien Joseph Victor Rops, The Sphinx, 1886. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library, F82.70.2.

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The Sphinx
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