Minneapolis Institute of Art

La ramasseuse de fagots (Firewood Gatherer)

Félicien Rops; Publisher: Claude Roger-Marx, Paris

Date

1895

Medium

Etching and drypoint

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The name Félicien Rops evokes his notoriously erotic prints and his fascination with the seamy Parisian demimonde. Another powerful draw was the Flemish countryside, where he regularly retreated to do landscapes. Rops seemed to demarcate these two worlds in his work, never giving his rural women the come-hither aura of his city women. As he showed in this etching, the countryside was the province of humility and hard work. Belgium, Europe

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