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The collection of Félicien Rops letters and other material, circa 1864 - circa
1910. WIL.001.001
Finding aid prepared by Dawn Aveline
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-857-6118
[email protected]
The collection of Félicien Rops
letters and other material, circa
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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Title: The Michael G. Wilson collection of Félicien Rops letters and other material
Identifier/Call Number: WIL.001.001
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library
Language of Material: French
Storage Unit: 1-5
Physical Description: 5.2 Linear feet5 boxes.
Date: circa 1864 - circa 1910
creator: Wilson, Michael G., 1942Arrangement note
The materials in this collection showed little arrangement reflective of original order, apart from the folder of manuscript
materials by Henry Detouche. To facilitate access, the materials were arranged in series according to their type:
Series 1: Manuscript materials (chronological): Draft letters and notes by Henry Detouche; Autograph letters and manscript
material.
Series 2: Excerpted published material. The titles of the items in this series are formulated as follows: article title;
publication title; author (first last); city of publication; pages. The articles are then arranged in alphabetical order by
author's last name.
Series 3: Complete journals. The journals are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
Series 4: Auction Catalogues. The titles of items in this series are formulated as follows: title of catalogue with collection
name. location; date; name of commissaires-priseurs; name of expert. The catalogues are then arranged chronologically.
Series 5: Booksellers' Bulletins (arranged chronologically).
Series 6: Bound materials and books. The bound volumes and books have been catalogued separately and placed in Special
Collections.
Biographical/Historical note
Collection donor Michael G. Wilson is best known as the producer and screenwriter of films in the James Bond series (per
Prints and Drawings curator Naoko Takahatake). Wilson, born in New York City in 1942, obtained degrees in electrical
engineering and law and later joined the film business of his stepfather, Albert R. Broccoli. In 2008 he was made an officer
of the Order of the British Empire. In addition to his work in film, Wilson is a noted collector and expert in nineteenth
century photography, and co-authored the book Pictorialism in California with Dennis Read.
About Félicien Rops
Born on July 7, 1833, in Namur, Belgium, Rops moved to Brussels at the age of 20 where he enrolled in the Atelier Libre de
St Luc. Working at first primarily in lithography, Rops’ artistic career began with his caricatures of political figures published
in a student paper, Le Crocodile, and later in a satirical weekly he founded, L’Uylenspiegel. By 1865 Rops had mostly
ceased working in lithography; in 1862 he learned etching and traveled to Paris to study the technique with leading
practitioners, Félix Bracquemond and Jules Jacquemart.
In 1868, along with fifteen other Belgian artists, Rops helped establish the Société de l’Art Libre. The Société was formed to
promote artistic freedom and to advance the Realist movement, in reaction against the official Brussels Salon. The Société
published a bi-monthly journal and held its own exhibitions. The following year Rops created the Société Internationale des
Aquafortistes; members of the Société included Rops' fellow printer and collaborator, François Nys. Later, after the
dissolution of these two groups, Rops joined another group of Belgian artists calling themselves Les XX, formed in 1883 by
Octave Maus. Les XX held annual exhibitions featuring their own work along with the works of artists invited from outside
Belgium. Rops exhibited his painting "Pornocrates" to a scandalous reception at the Salon des XX in 1886.
During the years 1864 to 1871, Rops created engraved illustrations for publisher Auguste Poulet-Malassis. Through this
collaboration Rops came to befriend Charles Baudelaire who commissioned him to create the frontispiece to his Les Epaves
in 1866. Beginning in the mid-1860s Rops also produced illustrations for the Gay and Doucé printing house, including
illustrations for a minuscule edition of “Les Bas-Fonds de la Société.”
Baudelaire’s influence can be found in several major themes of Rops’ work, including the representations of death and
disease in a female form. Rops was well known for his depictions of erotic scenes, often incorporating satyrs and devils. His
work earned him the admiration of many of the most prominent Symbolist authors and he was reputed to be highly paid for
illustrations of their work. He designed ten illustrations for Barbey d’Aurévilly’s short story collection, Les Diaboliques, in
1879, which were reproduced later in a separate edition and again in larger format. In 1882 Rops began work on a series of
soft-ground etchings, never completed, called Les Sataniques.
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During his lifetime Rops was celebrated for his work as an etcher. In 1896 the journal La Plume devoted an issue to Rops
and a retrospective of his work was mounted at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. Another exhibition followed later that year in
Brussels. Rops died on August 23, 1898 at his home in Essonnes, France.
Biographical information was compiled from the following sources:
"Photography Expert Michael G. Wilson Becomes an Art Fund Fund Trustee." Artdaily.org, May 10, 2010,
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=37948&int_modo=1 (Accessed 7 November 2011).
British Museum, "François Nys," The British Museum,
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx (Accessed 22 November 2011).
Hoffman, Edith. “Félicien Rops.” In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
Musée Rops, “Biography of Félicien Rops,” Musée Rops, http://museerops.be/espace/documents/Biographie_Rops_Eng.pdf
(Accessed 1 November 2011).
Exteens, Maurice. “ROPS (Félicien).” In Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains. Edited by René
Edouard-Joseph. Paris : Librarie Grund, 1934.
Scope and Contents note
This collection is comprised of manuscript materials, excerpts, journals, auction catalogues, booksellers' bulletins, and
books by Félicien Rops and his contemporaries. Rops, a Belgian engraver, illustrator and painter, is associated with the
Belgian avant-garde and the Symbolists of the late 19th century. Rops gained fame through his use of erotic and Satanic
imagery and his mastery of the Realist style. The materials date from the 1870s to circa 1913.
The series of manuscript materials is divided into two subseries, one containing draft letters and notes for published articles
by Henry Detouche and the other grouping together handwritten notes or letters to and from Rops and others in his circle,
including correspondence on the topic of the purchase and delivery of a printing press in 1876.
Published articles and journals make up the majority of the collection. The series of published material is primarily
composed of articles about or by Rops, excerpted from their parent publications. Many of the journal articles were enclosed
or glued into the journal's original paper covers with surrounding pages removed. The series of complete journals contains
periodicals whose complete contents are intact.
The series of auction sales catalogues documents the many sales held primarily in Paris at the Hôtel Drouot featuring Rops’
work. Some catalogues have been annotated with prices. Similarly, the series of booksellers’ bulletins is comprised of book
or print vendor catalogues, each listing numerous works by Rops for sale. The bound volumes series contains monographs
as well as journal articles that have been bound together.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
The materials in this collection were donated to LACMA by screenwriter and producer Michael G. Wilson, in association with
his gift to the museum of several hundred prints by Félicien Rops. The Rops prints were accessioned over the span of
several years, from 1979 to 1984.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the Balch Research Library at 323-856-6118 or [email protected] for information on publishing or reproducing
materials included in these records. Permission will be granted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as the owner of
the physical materials, and does not imply permission from the copyright holder. It is the responsibility of the researcher to
obtain all necessary permissions from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation note
[Description of item], The Michael G. Wilson Collection of Félicien Rops letters and other material, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art Balch Art Research Library, WIL.001.001.
Processing Information note
The materials were transferred into acid-free, buffered folders and containers in October 2011. Some fragile documents
were preservation photocopied. Modern, non-archival folders were discarded. The two books and five volumes of bound
material were catalogued separately and housed in Special Collections.
The manuscript materials were described according to the standards contained in Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials
(Books), 2007 revision.
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment only through the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Balch Art
Research Library. Telephone 323-857-6118 or email [email protected].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Detouche, Henry Julien, 1854-1913
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Rops, Félicien, 1833-1898
Art criticism
Art, Belgian--19th century
Auction catalogs
Clippings (information artifacts)
Drafts (documents)
Graphic arts
Journals (periodicals)
Letters (correspondence)
Publications
Sales catalogs
Symbolism (Art movement)
Manuscript materials. Circa 1870 - 1905
Arrangement
This series is arranged into two subseries, one containing draft letters and notes written by
Henry Detouche and the other grouping together notes or letters by others.
Scope and Contents
The series of manuscript materials contains letters, draft letters, and notes written by Henry
Detouche and others. Detouche’s draft letters include a letter of condolence to Rops’ wife
after the artist’s death, a letter to fellow artist and friend of Rops, Armand Rassenfosse, and
a draft of a letter to Rops himself discussing the introduction that Rops would write for
Detouche’s 1895 book Propos d’un peintre (Box 1, Folder 3). Detouche’s notes in the series
center upon articles he would write about Rops, in particular for his article in La Vogue in
February 1899. Also included are several pages of notes in preparation for an article on the
Belgian painter Henry de Groux.
The second subseries of manuscript materials includes two short missives written by Rops
(one confirming the ownership of a press, the other arranging with his printer François Nys
to meet at the workshop); three letters from Nys to caricaturist and friend of Rops Maurice
Bonvoisin, regarding the sale and delivery of a press; and a letter from Théodore Hannon to
Bonvoisin confirming the press’s installation.
Autograph notes and draft letters by Henry Detouche. 1894-1904
Box 1, Folder 3
[Transcribed letter] 1894 October 7 [to Detouche] / Félicien Rops. 1894
General note
Transcription of the last part of a letter from Rops to and by Detouche.
Box 1, Folder 3
[Draft letter] 1894 October 8 [to Rops] / Henry Detouche. 1894
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Box 1, Folder 3
[Draft letter] 1896 June 20, 29 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Paris [to Armand]
Rassenfosse / Henry Detouche. 1896
General note
Recounts Rops' failing health and his having received an invitation to his own
exhibition opening the following day.
Transcription
Mon cher ami,
Je me trouvais précisément chez Rops où je passais deux | jours, quand on a reçu à la
stupéfaction générale | une carte d’invitation pour l’inauguration de | son exposition
qui devait se faire le lendemain 14 | juin. Personne ne s’attendait évidemment à une |
date aussi proche. Tu te rappelles parfaitement que | nous déplorions tous deux
n’est-ce pas ? dans l’intimité[?] | qu’il était malheureux qu’elle ne se fît pas dans la |
pleine saison artistique d’Octobre à Avril. Je | trouvais que les yeux de nos
contemporains sont tellement | las des expositions petites et grandes aquarellistes,
pas- | tellistes, expositions de cercles*, expositions de chez Bing, | Durand-Ruel,
George Petit. & pour finir les deux | colossales exhibitions des Champ-Elysées & du
Champ | de Mars. Les rétines impressionnées par les formes gorgées | de couleurs ont
besoin de repos à la fin, & c’est dans le | décor de la pleine nature, mer ou montagne,
bois | ou champ que nus devons tous rincer nos prunelles | défaillantes. Or
Deschamps d’ordinaire assez avisé | n’a pas pensé un moment à cela, ou s’il y a
pensé | quelles sont donc les puissances occultes qui [illeg.] que | lui faire passer.
^outre Quelles considérations étaient donc | assez forts pour prévaloir sure une
question de réussite | qu’il fallait rendre certaine. Il ne faut jamais négliger | [next
page] d’avoir beaucoup d’atouts dans son jeu si l’on veut | gagner la partie.
Et quelle plus glorieuse partie à gagner. | Une personnalité aussi riche et aussi haute
que | celle de notre cher et grand Rops, dont la longue | vie de labeur attendait une
apothéose bien méritée | et qui après l’estime de tous les vrais artistes avait le suf- |
frage de tous les intellectuels.
Si l’on voulait donc luis forcer un peu la main | pour faire cette exposition, si l’on
éveillait tout d’un | coup en lui la prestigieuse vision de son œuvre ac- | -complie, si
l’on venait tisonner ainsi son puissant | cerveau, que l’inspiration laboura tant naguère
| pour y faire germer l’innombrable éclosion des | plus surprenantes conceptions de ce
temps ; il fal- | -lait au moins quelques semaines, si ce n’est des | mois pour le
groupement des œuvres & la sélection | a laquelle seul il avait droit de présider.
Et tous ses plus proches & ses plus dévoués y auraient | l’ineffable joie comme à une
consécration triomphale | longtemps désirée et toujours attendue.
Ce qui m’a fait frissonner & m’a donné une soudaine | nausée, ça été d’apprendre que
certaines chez lesquels l’es- | -prit mercantile et agioteur l’a emporté sur l’affection |
sont venus s’informer hypocritiquement de son état et | au lieu de sentir l’affliction
profonde que doivent éprouver | les vrais cœurs à la seule pensée d’un danger
possible l’im- | -pitoyable supputation des bénéfices à réaliser étant alors la seule |
préoccupation de leur cerveau.
A l’introduction d’art merveilleuses visions reproduisant dans la | fierté des ligues et le
mystère des tentes[?] l’obsédante beauté | tout cela, dessins, peintures, eaux-fortes
et donc ravalé ainsi au rang | des valeurs de bourse. On joue à la hausse et à la |
baisse sur le génie & on cherche à avoir des tuyaux pigées avec les valeurs en main |
donne[?] renseignements, pour agir en conséquence. Et | certains ont eu chez eux de
rayonnantes choses qui appar- | -tiennent virtuellement aux musées futurs & qui s’en
sont allés | de ci, de là, vendues, échangées, revendues, & dont le | charme
impérissable n’a pu parvenir à [illeg.] et fixer pour toujours le possesseur | intéressé.
D’où* l’amour sincère de l’art aurait [immobilisé] dû finir | à tout jamais le choix de
l’amateur ; la cupidité & l’agis | a l’avant[?] tout aux aventures des enchères. Enfin |
au séjour aléatoire et inconstant des boutiques ou salons-maga | -sins succédera un
jour la définitive installation dans | les glorieuses pinacothèques futures.
Les œuvres d’art n’ont elles pas surtout leur paradis, où elles | arrivent après de
laborieuses étapes qui sont comme des contrôles & des preuves successives et
nécessaires. |
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Heureusement qu’il y a depuis bien longtemps & qu’il y | aura toujours des fervents
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fidèles pour les œuvres de notre cher maitre ; & c’est | ce qui console & compense
tant d’autres trafiquants.
Je partage absolument tes sentiments au sujet de l’état | de santé de notre illustre &
si cher ami ; quand je l’ai vu | par hasard dans une crise pénible ; c’était si douloureux
| pour moi, que c’était déjà trop de l’avoir vue. Le dire | eut été une prolongation de
tristesse, le taire était un devoir | selon mon cœur. C’était le désir fervent de biffer la
Box 1, Folder 3
[Draft Letter] 1896 November 18, [to] Ann [Harancourt] / Henry Detouche. 1896
General note
In this draft letter, Henry Detouche thanks Ann Harancourt for her article on Rops in
“Le Gaulois.”
Box 1, Folder 3
[Notes] 1898 January, Souvenir sur Rops / Henry Detouche. 1898
General note
Detouche describes an evening with Rops near the end of Rops' life. Includes
Detouche's account of Rops’ definition of happiness: “C’est d’avoir unde bonne
commande, dit-il et après un court intervalle pendant lequel il fut son habituel sourire,
il ajouta baissant un peu la voix ... et ne pas la faire."
Box 1, Folder 3
[Draft letter] 1898 September, [to] Madame Rops / Henry Detouche. 1898
General note
According to annotation in ink, this is a letter to Madame Rops in l'Ile-de-Brébant,
France, following Rops' death.
Box 1, Folder 3
[Draft letter, n.d.] 1904 December [per annotation] [to Rops, per annotation] /
Henry Detouche. No date.
General note
On subject of Rops’ letters (according to annotation).
Box 1, Folder 3
[Notes, n.d.] [Notes for article on Eugène Demolder's book "Trois Contemporains:
Henry de Brackeleer, Constantin Meunier, Félicien Rops"] / Henry Detouche. No
date.
General note
1 leaf.
Box 1, Folder 3
[Notes, n.d.] [Mss notes and draft of article on DeGroux] / Henry Detouche. No
date.
[Notes, n.d.] [Mss notes and draft of article] sur Félicien Rops / Henry Detouche.
No date.
Box 1, Folder 3
General note
These notes relate to Detouche's article "Félicien Rops" published in the journal La
Vogue in February 1899 (Box 2, Folder 7).
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 1, Folder 3
[Notes, n.d.] Sur l'Amour (Don Juan) / Henry Detouche. No date.
[Notes, n.d.] [Notes on Rops] / Henry Detouche. No date.
General note
Includes reminiscence about Rops making a bet that he could guess the nationalities
of bathers on the beach at Ostende; mentions Don Juan.
Box 1, Folder 3
[Notes, n.d.] [Notes on Rops] / Henry Detouche. No date.
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter, n.d.] August 3, Dave [to Henry Detouche] / Camille Lemonnier. No date.
Autograph letters and manuscript material. Circa 1872 - 1894
[Printed invitations] [3 printed invitations from the] Société Libre des Beaux-Arts,
Bruxelles / E. Lambrichs, F. Rops. 23 avril 1872, 28 février 1873, 4 mars 1876.
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Box 1, Folder 2
[Letter] 1876 January 4, Brussels [to] Monsieur Bonvoisin / François Nys. 1876
General note
Autograph letter from François Nys to M. Bonvoisin, accompanying an invoice for “une
presse en taille-douce (100 fr)” and “bouteille de noir (1 fr)”, and gratuity for “les
hommes de peine (1,50 fr).” Dated 4 janvier 1876, Bruxelles. This letter, along with
two others from Nys to Bonvoisin, was glued to a sheet of heavy paper prior to
acquisition by LACMA.
Box 1, Folder 2
General note
Autograph letter in response to a letter from Bonvoisin seeking instruction related to
the press. This letter, along with two others from Nys to Bonvoisin, was glued to a
sheet of heavy paper prior to acquisition by LACMA.
Box 1, Folder 2
General note
Autograph letter from Nys acknowledging receipt of payment from Bonvoisin for the
press. This letter, along with two others from Nys to Bonvoisin, was glued to a sheet of
heavy paper prior to acquisition by LACMA.
Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter] 1894 December 17, 2, Rue du Marché des Blancs Manteaux, Paris /
Félicien Rops. 1894
General note
Autograph letter from Rops to unknown recipient certifying that the press in his “petit
atelier” belongs to François Nys.
Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter] November 3, Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, [to] Mr Bonvoisin / [Théodore]
Hannon.
General note
Letter from Théodore Hannon (editor of L’Artiste) to M. Bonvoisin, confirming Nys
installed the press. This letter was glued to heavy paper stock before acquisition by
LACMA.
Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter, n.d.] [to François] Nys / F.R. [Félicien Rops]. No date.
General note
Card to Nys from Rops arranging for Nys to come to the atelier “en partant à 8h1/2 de
la place Pigalle vous seriez à l’atelier à 9 heures [...] pour tirer des Sataniques /
leaving at 8:30 from Place Pigalle you will be at the atelier at 9 am [...] to print the
Sataniques.”
Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter, n.d.] / Féli Gautier. No date.
General note
Autograph letter from Féli Gautier to unknown recipient, possibly Henry Detouche,
offering letters written by Rops.
Transcription
Vendredi soir
C’est entendu, et laissons l’année | ensevelir toutes ces misères; je suis | confus de la
peine que vous | vous êtes donnée pour gravir | mes 6 pénibles étages: veuillez |
croire combien j’aurais été heureux | de causer, entre nous; et, pour | vous prier de
m’excuser, acceptez | ma démarche de ce soir, heureux de | pouvoir vous donner la
primeur | de ces lettres Rops; l’exemplaire est | coupé, il n’y en avait qu’un seul | au
Mercure, celui des patrons[?] et | vous l’avez
à l’an neuf, et cependant | croyez à mes sentiments de la | meilleure sympathie
Féli Gautier [end]
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Box 1, Folder 1
[Letter, n.d.], [to] Monsieur Jaffrey / Henri Liesse. No date.
General note
Autograph letter from Henri Liesse contains references to Rops' correspondance.
Transcription
Cher monsieur Jaffrey
Survient ma conçierge : | Il est venu un monsieur demander | de vos nouvelles a un
bel etorunnce[?] | et elle me remet votre carte | va pour le bel et bon avec indulgence
| pour le retard.
Mais j’ai lu relu et même copié | quelques caractéristiques | D’après l’O. Pirmez il me
parait à | peu près certain que les lettres que | lui demandait Rops en vue de ses |
Feuilles Volantes ont été anéanties |
à propos de Théophile Silvestre | vous savez comme moi qu’il a laissé | [next page] |
un livre de portraits dans la | manière forte que je vous souhaite | de retrouver l’o[au?]
down wir[?] recherchez | Rops çitait souvent de ses mots | celui-çi entr’autres inspire
des | maintes écritures: “Malheur aux | rassassiés! [?]”
il y a parmi vos documents | une lettre de Glatigny bien | curieuse comme
rapprochement | avec quelques unes de Rops
Mais quelle très intéressante | que celle au monologue | du parfait Fromentin | D’après
quoi merci au | revoir et bien à vous
H Liesse [end]
Box 1, Folder 5
Excerpted published material. Circa 1880 - 1910
[Preservation photocopied originals] No date.
General note
Original newspaper clippings for which photocopied surrogates have been created. Not
available for paging; contact archivist for more information.
Box 2, Folder 1
"Félicien Rops, étude patronymique par Eugène Demolder, avec quelques
reproductions brutales de devises inédites de Rops (Paris, René Pinsbourde)";
excerpted from L’Artiste; Jean Albioz; 471-476. No date.
General note
Includes illustrations by Rops subtitled “pour Poulet-Malssis, Charles Baudelaire, Barbey
d’Aurévilly, Armand Silvestre.”
Box 2, Folder 2
"Lettres Inédites à Félicien Rops"; excerpted from Mercure de France; Ph. Burty,
Baudelaire; Paris, No. 181, Tome LIII; 30 – 44. 2 copies. 1 January 1905.
General note
Reproductions of letters to Rops from Alfred Delvau, Théophile Silvestre, Philippe Burtuy,
Octave Pirmez, Charles de Coster, Paul Verlaine, Edmond de Goncourt, Albert Glatigny,
Poulet-Malassis, Charles Baudelaire. Includes the original printed cover and title page.
Box 2, Folder 3
Box 2, Folder 4
"Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876"; by J.C.; 193-216. No date.
“Lettres inédites d'artistes"; excerpted from La Belgique Contemporaine : revue de
l’activité nationale; Bruxelles, 1ere année No. 3; letters by Courbet, Manet, Rops,
Stevens; 303 – 320. 3 June 1904.
General note
Published correspondance of artists (Courbet, Manet, Rops, Stevens) with Alfred Werwée,
a Belgian painter. Rops mentions in a letter reproduced here the essay by Eugène
Demolder in which Demolder discusses Rops’ Flemish origins. Includes original cover.
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"Chronique Artistique : L’Exposition des XX ; Mort de M. Mauve ; Exposition de M.
Asselbergs"; excerpted from La Société Nouvelle; Eugène Demolder; 181–192.
February 1888.
"Chronique Artistique : Notes sur le Salon des XX"; excerpted from La Société
Nouvelle; Eugène Demolder; Bruxelles; 441-444. March 1893.
"Félicien Rops"; excerpted from La Vogue; Henry Detouche; Nouvelle série, No. 2;
87-104. February 1899.
Box 2, Folder 5
Box 2, Folder 6
Box 2, Folder 7
General note
This is the published article based on Detouche's manuscript notes in this collection (Box
1, Folder 3).
Box 2, Folder 8
"La jeunesse d’Eugène Fromentin"; excerpted from La Revue des Deux Mondes;
Émile Faguet; 599-614. 1 April 1909.
[Cover Pages] Revue des Deux Mondes; LXXIXe année, Cinquième Période, Paris. 1
April 1909.
Box 2, Folder 8
Preservation photocopied. Original in Box 1, Folder 5.
General note
Paper front and back cover only. Table of contents indicates "La jeunesse d’Eugène
Fromentin par M. Émile Faguet."
Box 2, Folder 9
"Certains"; excerpted from Art et Critique; Fénéon. 14 December 1889.
General note
1 leaf with last two paragraphs pasted onto verso.
Box 2, Folder 10
"Salons d'Art"; excerpted from La Revue Générale; Arnold Goffin; Quarante et
unième année, No. 3; Bruxelles; 333-363. September 1905.
General note
In original paper cover.
Box 1, Folder 11
"Une Tentation de St Antoine de Félicen Rops"; excerpted from La Revue
Indépendante; Camille Lemonnier; Paris; 125–131. 1884.
"Félicien Rops"; excerpted from La Belgique Artistique et littéraire; by Camille
Lemonnier; 133-143. November 1908.
Box 2, Folder 12
General note
Date according to handwritten annotation. Paper cover, handwritten title.
Box 2, Folder 13
“La retrospective de l’art belge au Salon d’automne”; Henry Marcel; 647-660. No
date.
“Chronique Bruxelloise”; excerpted from La Revue Indépendante; Octave Maus; n.d.;
19-23. No date.
Box 2, Folder 14
General note
Article discusses the Salon des XX.
Box 2, Folder 15
"Esquisses Littéraires : Eugène Fromentin Ecrivain"; excerpted from Revue des Deux
Mondes; by Emile Montégut; 673-691. No date.
"Les Maîtres Contemporains par Joséphin Péladan – FÉLICIEN ROPS (Première
étude)"; excerpted from La Jeune Belgique; Bruxelles; 19 pages. 1885.
Box 2, Folder 16
General note
With two loose clippings, an image of Rops and a portrait of Péladan. 25 cm.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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"Félicien Rops : l’oeuvre et l’homme par J. Péladan : Extrait de la Revue de Paris, 15
juillet 1904"; excerpted from La Revue de Paris; J. Péladan; Paris; 303-333. 15 July
1904.
Box 2, Folder 17
General note
Blank paper cover, handwritten title page. 25 cm.
Box 2, Folder 18
"Félicien Rops Illustrateur"; excerpted from Revue Biblio-iconographique; Erasthène
Ramiro; 6e Année, 3e Série; Paris; 53-63. 1889.
General note
Inscribed by "F.E. Tallouz" [sp.]. With original paper cover.
Box 2, Folder 19
"Félicien Rops"; excerpted from Mercure de France; Paris; Hugues Rebell; 647-662.
December 1898.
General note
Article begins on p. 650. Two copies of article, one with handwritten annotation "F. Rops
par Hugues Rebell." With duplicated pages 657-8, and one index leaf (p. 859-860).
Box 2, Folder 20
Box 2, Folder 21
Box 2, Folder 22
"Le Bassoniste"; excerpted from L'Artiste; by Félicien Rops; 365-368. No date.
"Lettres de Félicien Rops"; excerpt from La Plume; n.d.; 491-494. No date.
"De Stevens et Quibusdam Aliis"; excerpted from Mercure de France; Paris, 16 – iv –
1908; letter from F. Rops to “Mon cher Théo”; 651–660. 16 April 1908.
“Félicien Rops : Lettres à une femme"; excerpted from La Vogue; Paris, No. 4; 1–11.
April 1899.
Box 2, Folder 23
General note
Original printed cover and title page.
Box 2, Folder 24
"Félicien Rops et le Bourgeois"; excerpted from L’Idée libre : littéraire, artistique,
sociale; Maurice Saey; Bruxelles; Tome III, 2e année, No. 5; 301-318. 15 May 1902.
General note
Article reproduces a letter from Rops to Charles de Coster and mentions Gavigny, Alfred
Delvau, Poulet-Malassis (publisher), Baudelaire. In original paper wrapper; brittle.
Box 2, Folder 25
"Chronique Bruxelloise : L’Exposition des XX a Bruxelles (1) 1888; excerpted from La
Revue Indépendante; Emile Verhaeren; No. 17 (tome VI), n.d.; 454–462. 1888.
Box 2, Folder 26
“L’Exposition des XX”; excerpted from L’Artiste; by Max Waller; 161-164. March
1886.
"Le Salon des XX par Max Waller"; excerpted from L’Artiste; Max Waller; Bruxelles;
173-179. 1888.
Box 2, Folder 27
General note
Blank paper cover, handwritten title page. 26 cm.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "Journal des Revues: Lettres de Rops"; from Le petit bleu, [date
per annotation]. 12 June 1904.
General note
Clipping concerns the publication of letters from Rops in “La Belgique Contemporaine (no.
3 Juin 1904), and reprints two of his letters.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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[Newspaper clipping] "Lettres de Fély"; Journal – dimanche 17 octobre [per
annotation, no year given]. No date.
Box 2, Folder 28
Box 2, Folder 28
[Sales catalogue clipping, n.d.] No date.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "Sur la tombe de Félicien Rops"; Paris Journal, [date per
annotation]. 14 September 1911.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "Une lettre de Rops"; excerpted from Les Entretiens Idéalistes;
n.d.; 1-2. No date.
General note
Printing of “Une lettre de Rops” dated 18 February 1888, discussing art critic Paul
Leprieur. 1 leaf.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "Le sang et les roses"; excerpted from Comedia, [title and date
per annotation]. 24 October 1911.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clippings] Three clippings, including obituaries/eulogies, most undated,
one from 1911. 1911, no date.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "La Semaine Artistique: Un point de vue sur Rops"; pub. unk.;
Arsène Alexandre; n.d. No date.
Box 2, Folder 28
[Newspaper clipping] "La musique dans l'oeuvre de Félicien Rops"; from L'Echo de
Paris Littéraire Illustré; n.d. No date.
Box 2,
Box 2,
Box 2,
Box 2,
Folder 29
Folder 29
Folder 29
Folder 29
[Leaf] Reproduction of a photograph[?] of Rops, n.d. No date.
[Postcard] Reproduction of "Etude" by Rops. No date.
[Leaf] Mercure de France; 327-328. 15 January 1905.
[Advertisement] Advertisement for "Supplément au catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé de
Félicien Rops par Erastène Ramiro." 1895.
General note
27 cm. 4 pages. Illustrations.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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[Advertisement] Advertisement for "Catalogue descriptif et analytique de l'oeuvre
gravé de Félicien Rops, précédé d'une notice biographique et critique." 2 copies.
1894.
Box 2, Folder 29
General note
Handwritten annotations on each of the two leaves: "no 42 - 20 Octobre 1894" and "no
47 - 24 Nov. 1894".
Box 2, Folder 29
Box 2, Folder 29
[Note] Handwritten note, n.d.; unknown. No date.
[Plate] Black and white illustration by Rops, "Theâtre Gaillard". No date.
General note
Single leaf.
Box 1, Folder 4
"Frontispice"; poem excerpted from La Revue Indépendante [per annotation];
Rodolphe Darzens; Paris, No 29, [date per annotation]. March 1889.
General note
With one leaf (four pages including title) of "La Revue Indépendante" numbers 66, 67, 68,
April - June 1892.
Box 1, Folder 4
[Advertisement] Brochure advertising "Etudes sur quelques artistes originaux:
Félicien Rops" by Camille Lemonnier. 2 copies. No date.
Box 1, Folder 4
Box 1, Folder 4
[Advertisement] Prospectus for La Vie Élégante, a monthly magazine. 1882.
[Newspaper clipping] Notice of sale of rights (droits d'auteur) to Rops’ work. From La
Metropole, Anvers [per annotation; date per annotation]. 7 April 1899.
General note
Printed notice and small clipping glued to speckled grey cardstock.
Box 4, Folder 12
[Leaf] L’Art Moderne; n.d.; 67-68. No date.
General note
Publication of a letter by Rops dated 17 February 1887.
Box 4, Folder 12
[Leaf] "L'Infame Fély"; excerpted from L'Art Moderne; Edmond Picard; 338. 24
October 1886.
[Leaf] Reproduction of Rops drawing,"L'experte en dentelle"; La Vie Moderne; [Date
per annotation]. 1880.
Box 4, Folder 12
Box 2, Folder 29
Reproduction of a work by Rops. 5" x 7", mounted on heavy card. No date.
General note
Image mounted on card stock. 18 cm.
Auction Catalogues. 1900-1913
Arrangement note
The titles of items in this series are formulated as follows: title of catalogue with collection
name. location; date; name of commissaires-priseurs; name of expert. The catalogues are
then arranged chronologically.
Box 4, Folder 1
Collection BING - Catalogue de tableaux modernes - oeuvres de Besnard -- Cottet -Thaulow, Brangwyn, Maurice Deis, Duezz, Ibels, Johanson, Le Sidaner, Henri Martin,
Osbert, Ten Cate, Vallotton. -– Angrand, Cavallo Peduzzi, Conder, Couturier, Georges
de Feure, Degouve de Nuneques, Forain, H. Geurard, Jules Jacquemard, Leheutre,
Maxime Maufra, Mellerie, René Ménard, Nonell, Charles Pepper, Rippl Ronai,
Shannon, Paul Signac, Vincent Van Gogh. –- Jeanniot, Maurin, Rops,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Rysselbergh. Hotel Drouot; Georges Duchesne; Bernheim
Jeune & Fils. 17 May 1900.
General note
Includes an essay on Rops by J-K Huysmanns, pp. 94-5.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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Collection L.S. de M. - Oeuvres de Félicien Rops - Dessins - Eaux-Fortes Lithographies - Estampes Modernes - Par Buhot, Charpentier, Chahine, Delatre,
Lepère et Waltner; Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, rue Drouot, No.9; Maurice
Delestre; Edmond Sagot. 30 May 1903.
Supplement au Catalogue de la Collection L.S. de M. - Oeuvres de Félicien Rops Dessins - Eaux-Fortes - Lithographies - Estampes Modernes - Par Buhot, Charpentier,
Chahine, Delatre, Lepère et Waltner; Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, rue Drouot,
No.9; Maurice Delestre; Edmond Sagot. 30 May 1903.
Catalogue d'une Intéressante Collection d'oeuvres de Félicien Rops. Hotel Drouot;
Maurice Delestre; Loys Delteil. 2 copies. 30 November 1903.
Estampes Anciennes du XVIIIe siècle en noir et en couleurs par ou d'après : Alix,
Aubry, Baudoin [...] Aquarelles et Dessisn, par Félicien Rops; Hotel Drouot; Maurice
Delestre; Paulme et Lasquin Fils. 7 March 1904.
Collection Alfred Barrion - Oeuvres de Félicien Rops - Dessins, Eaux-Fortes -Lithographies; Hotel Drouot; Maurice Delestre; Edmond Sagot. 24 May 1904.
Oeuvres de Félicien Rops (No. 157); Hotel Drouot; André Desvouges; Loys Delteil. 4
May 1908.
Box 5, Folder 1
Box 5, Folder 1
Box 5, Folder 2
Box 5, Folder 3
Box 5, Folder 3
Box 5, Folder 3
General note
Includes some handwritten price annotations.
Box 5, Folder 4
Collection de M. Octave Uzanne - Peintures -- Dessins - Estampes (No. 161); Hotel
Drouot; André Desvouges; Loys Delteil. 30 May 1908.
General note
Includes some handwritten price annotations.
Box 5, Folder 4
Estampes Modernes - Oeuvres de Barye, Bracquemond, Buhot, Corot, Daumier,
Fantin-Latour, Haden, Hervier, Jongkind, Manet, Meryon, Millet, Raffet, Renouard,
Rops, Whistler, Zorn, etc., etc. (No. 164); Hotel Drouot; André Desvouges; Loys
Delteil. 2 copies. 4 November 1908.
General note
One of the two copies contains handwritten price annotations.
Box 5, Folder 5
Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu le Marquis E. Salvert Bellenave [...] Quatrième
Partie -- Oeuvre gravé de Félicien Rops (No. 198); Hotel Drouot; André Desvouges; A.
Durel, Loys Delteil. 2 copies. 23 December 1909.
General note
Both copies have some handwritten price annotations.
Box 5, Folder 6
Catalogue des livres anciens et modernes - Dessins et estampes - provenant des
collections de feu M. Ch. Roger, de Verviers, et de M. L*****, bibliophile bruxellois (2e Partie); E. Deman, Libraire, Bruxelles. 25 - 27 January 1910.
General note
Includes blank purchase slip for the shop of M. E. Deman, Libraire-Expert.
Box 5, Folder 7
Dessins anciens et modernes - peintures (No. 214); Hotel Drouot; André Desvouges;
Loys Delteil. 1 June 1910.
General note
Catalog is incomplete.
Box 5, Folder 7
Collection de M. Edmond Haraucourt - Oeuvre gravé de Félicien Rops (No. 258); Hotel
Drouot; Lair-Dubreuil; Loys Delteil. 16 February 1912.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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Collection de feu M. Mars (Mce Bonvoisin) - Oeuvre de Félicien Rops (Gravures,
Dessins, Autographes, Livres) - Estampes et Dessins Modernes de Gavarni, Israles, L.
Legrand, H. Monnier, etc. - Dessins originaux de Mars; André Desvouges, Georges
Albinet; Leo Delteil. 2 copies. 17 May 1913.
Box 5, Folder 8
General note
One of the two copies contains handwritten price annotations.
Box 5, Folder 8
Box 4, Folder 2
Box 4, Folder 3
Félicien Rops / Graphische / Seltenheiten - mit einer Einleitung von Professor Dr.
Hans W. Singer; Buch und Kunstantiquariat Oskar Rauthe, Dresden. n.d.
Complete Journals. Bulk, 1890-1898 ; Inclusive, 1889-1911
L’Art; Paris; 26e année, Tome V, 3e série, No. 797. March 1906.
L’Art Décoratif; Paris; 7e année, No. 83. August 1905.
General note
Includes article "Félicien Rops" by Charles Saunier, with 10 illustrations.
Box 3, Folder 1
L‘Art & l’Idée : Revue contemporaine du dilettantisme littéraire et de la curiosité;
Paris; No. 3. 20 March 1892.
General note
Includes "De quelques plaisants croquis faits en la prime manière de maître Félicien
Rops" by Octave Uzanne. Rops’ heliogravure in colors “L’Amour à Travers les Ages" (in
LACMA collection, M.83.326.25). 26 cm.
Box 4, Folder 4
Box 4, Folder 5
La Belgique; Paris; No. 203. 24 July 1897.
Caprice Revue; Deuxième Année, no. 53; n.d.
General note
2 copies, 47 cm. folded to 23 x 30 cm.
Box 4, Folder 6
Félicien Rops et quelques aspects de son oeuvre: par Camille Mauclair, J. Péladan,
J.-K. Huysmans, E. Ramiro, O. Mirbeau et F. Rops ; Paris, Bruxelles. 1890.
General note
Special limited edition brochure, numbered 54/100, 8 pages, 33 cm.
Box 3, Folder 2
Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui: Joséphin Péladan; 8e volume, No. 369. Circa 1890.
General note
With cover illustration, caricature of Péladan, by Alfred Le Petit. 30 cm folded to 15 cm.
Box 3, Folder 3
L’Idée Libre : Littéraire, Artistique, Sociale; Bruxelles, Tome III, 2me Année, No. 5. 15
May 1902.
General note
Includes "Le Sang et Les Roses" by Camille Lemonnier. 28 cm.
Box 3, Folder 4
L’Idée Libre : Littéraire, Artistique, Sociale; Bruxelles, Tome V, 3me Année, No. 1. 15
January 1903.
Impressions d’Art : Études – Critiques - Transpositions; by Eugène Demolder,
Bruxelles. December 1889.
Box 3, Folder 5
General note
135 pages, with table of contents. In paper wrapper. 26 cm.
Box 3, Folder 6
Pan : Revue Libre; 3e Année, No. 7. July-August 1910.
General note
Includes article by Jean deRoig, "Rops dans son Oeuvre." 25 cm.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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Complete Journals. Bulk, 1890-1898 ; Inclusive, 1889-1911
Box 3, Folder 7
Pan : Revue Libre; 3e Année, No. 10. October-November 1910.
General note
Includes "Lettres inédites" by Félicien Rops.
Box 3, Folder 8
La Plume; no. 172; 388-514 + I – XVI. 15 June 1896.
General note
Special issue on Félicien Rops. With related clippings.
Box 4, Folder 7
La Revue des Beaux Arts; Paris; No. 213, 3e série. 17 December 1911.
General note
Cover article devoted to Rops by Maurice Hamel. With 2 small clippings taped to front
cover.
Box 4, Folder 8
Box 4, Folder 9
La Revue des Beaux Arts & des Lettres. 15 September 1898.
Revue encyclopédique Larousse; Paris. 12 November 1898.
General note
Includes 14 engravings by Félicien Rops; same text as in "Félicien Rops et quelques
aspects de son oeuvre" by Camille Mauclair and others); 33 cm.
Box 4, Folder 10
Revue Populaire des Beaux-Arts; Paris; 2e année, No. 47, Tome II. 10 September
1898.
Box 4, Folder 11
La Vie Populaire. 17 sept 1891.
Booksellers' Bulletins. 1894-1908
Arrangement note
The bulletins are arranged chronologically.
Box 5, Folder 10
Catalogue Mensuel - 1re Partie - Gustave Pellet - Libraire Éditeur de Gravures. 5e
Année, No. 15. May 1894.
Aux Arts Réunis - Librairie Mathias & Cie - Catalogue Mensuel de Livres rares et
Curieux. No. 166. July 1902.
Bulletin Mensuel de Bibliophilie Publié par la Librairie Ch. Bosse -- Nouvelle Série -No. 53. December 1904.
Librairie Lecampion - A. Blaizot Successeur - Catalogue Mensuel de Beaux Livres
Modernes. No. 101. January 1905.
Librairie A. Blaizot - Catalogue de Livres Anciens et Modernes. No. 112. January
1906.
Librairie J. Chevrel - Catalogue de Livres Anciens & Modernes - Rares ou curieux,
Estampes - En vente aux Prix marqués. No. 48. 1908.
Catalogue des Planches Hors Texte publiées dans "L'Artiste" de 1867 à 1901. Paris,
Jean Schemit, Libraire de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français. 1908.
Box 5, Folder 10
Box 5, Folder 10
Box 5, Folder 11
Box 5, Folder 11
Box 5, Folder 11
Box 5, Folder 11
Box 5, Folder 9
Twenty-three leaves from various sales catalogues, n.d.
Bound materials and books.
Separated Materials note
The bound volumes and books are catalogued separately and housed in Special Collections.
Please see Librarian for more information.
[Book, n.d.] Les Bas-fonds de la société. Henry Monnier, Edition Minuscule tirée en
64 exemplaires. 1495.L36 2010 Circa 18[79?]
General Physical Description note: 13 cm, quarter bound.
With eight pasted-in pen & ink drawings by F. R. [Rops]. Bound w/mss letter from J. Gay
[publisher/editor J.J. Gay] discussing payment and billing for this book and others, Paris,
19 janvier [18]64. Two newspaper clippings about the book are also enclosed.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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Bound materials and books.
[Bound volume] Trois Artistes Etrangers. Hugues Rebell. 1901.
General Physical Description note: 20 cm, quarter bound.
With several loose items tucked in – printed portait of Hugues Rebell, two copies of
printed advertisment for “Trois Artistes Etrangers,” mss. note from author.
Bound with items: 1) article on Rops from Mercure de France, Dec. 1898, pp. 650-661; 2)
Section of “Trois Artistes Etranges” on Rops [p. 100] – 242. Includes publication of some
of Rops’ correspondance.
[Bound volume] "Catalogue de l’Oeuvre de Rops - Le Bibliophile belge. Bulletin
mensuel. Quatorzième année." BRUXELLES. CHEZ FR. J. OLIVIER, LIBRAIRE. 11, Rue
des Paroissiens. MDCCCLXXIX. 1879
General Physical Description note: 24 cm, quarter-bound cloth.
Section on Rops, 79-167.
[Bound volume] "Félicien Rops - l'oeuvre et l'homme by Péladan." From La Revue de
Paris. 1904?
General Physical Description note: 26 cm, quarter-bound.
Two copies of Péladan’s article on Rops published in La Revue de Paris, July 15 [1904]*
pp. 303-333. Mentions frontispiece to "Le Bas fonds de la Société" on page 318. Includes
loose items: portrait of Péladanand autograph letter from Péladan to unnamed man: «
Votre imprimeur qui avait sûrement mené la composition ne m'en a rien envoyé d’après
une grande semaine comme mise en pages. Je suis un peu inquiet et vous prie d ‘y
penser. Bien à vous, Péladan. »
*"Josephin Péladan:1858-1918." Beaufils, Christophe. Editions Jérôme Millon, 1993. 479.
[Bound volume] "Quelques plaisants croquis de Félicien Rops," by Octave Uzanne,
from L'Art et l'Idée, Paris, 20 mars 1892. 162-175. 1892
General Physical Description note: 26 cm, cloth.
[Book] Felicien Rops : numéro special; Gustave Kahn. Librairie Internationale, Paris.
No date.
Title page states: "18 dessins sur papier mat de grand luxe, 28 illustrations teintées, 1
gravure et trois planches en quatre couleurs / 18 drawings on deluxe matte paper, 28
colored illustrations, 1 engraving in three plates and four colors."
[Bound volume] L'Uylenspiegel, No. 1 through 52, 5 February 1856 - 18 January 1857.
1864 - circa 1910. ...
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