SOME HIGH POINTS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES
(Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings)
(Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings)
- Anonymous, Christ Crowned
- van Leyden, A Young Man
- Claesz, St. Peter Seated
- att. to Aertsen, St. John
- Cort, Maria Magdalena
- Wierix, Perseus and Andromeda
- Sadeler, Annunciation
- Collaert, Italian Landscape
- Sadeler, May and June
- Sadeler, July and August
- Muller, Albert, Archduke of Austria
- Casembrot, A Galley at Anchor
- van Uden, Landscape with a Man
- Uyttenbroeck, Mercury Accuses
- Akersloot, View of Haarlem
- Rembrandt, The Descent
- Rembrandt, Beggars Receiving
- Rembrandt, Jews in Synagogue
- Rembrandt, Faust
- Rembrandt, The Pancake Woman
- Pupil Of Rembrandt, Old Woman
- Lievens, Jacques Gaultier
- Post, Public Executions
- Waterloo, Farmhouse
- Waterloo, The Little Hunchback
- Both, Two Hinnies
- Van Ostade, The Fiddler
- Van Ostade, The Breakfast
- Fyt, Set of Animals
- Nolpe, Four Gentlemen
- Suyderhoef, Peasants in an Inn
- Berchem, Animalia
- Everdingen, The Mineral Springs
- Dujardin, Man and Two Donkeys
- Zeeman, Harbor Scene
- Visscher, Angel Appearing
- Bega, The Family
- van der Cabel, River Landscape
- Schoonebeck, Frontispiece
- Dusart, The Violinist
- Gole, Backgammon Players
- Pickaert, The Five Senses
- Tanjé, Pieter Tanjé
- Le Loup, View of the Town
- Soeterik, Boaters on a Lake
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- Rops, La Messagère
- Toorop, Venise Sauvée
- Van Hoytema, Ducks in a Pond
- de Bruycker, Autour le Chateau
- Nieuwenkamp, Tooren van Amersfoort
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47. Felicien Rops (1833-1898) La Messagère du Diable |
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La Messagère du Diable
Heliogravure and soft ground, ca. 1885, 190 x 260 mm., Exsteens 397, Ramiro 561, Mascha 874. A very fine and rich impression on MBM laid paper with full, large margins, signed with initials in red pencil. Exsteens mentions the print as “rare.” There is a persistent diabolical tradition in Flemish art, beginning with Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder, that has cropped up in almost every century since then. Rops is a primary example. Dismissed by many as a pornographer, he was anything but. Even his most sexually explicit images (of which this is not one) are far from titillating, evoking instead a nightmarish view of the world and a probing of the subconscious. The devil’s messenger here whispers temptations into the ear of a reclining female nude in an atmosphere of blackness. For pornography, try some Pop Art.
