FÉLICIEN ROPS (1833-1898)

Lead pencil on paper

Inscribed ‘L’Oliverade, Monte Carlo 76’

25.00 cm wide   36.00 cm high

9.84 inches wide  14.17 inches high

1876

Felicien Rops was the leading draughtsman in Belgium at the end of the nineteenth century perhaps best remembered for his "Pornocrates" series of drawings. This drawing derives strongly from the work of the French realist painter Jean François Millet and his major work "Les Glaneuses". When Van Gogh was in the South of France he too was much influenced by Millet producing several works inspired by "Les Glaneuses". Unlike Van Gogh, Rops has reworked Millet's image with olive gatherers picking up wth windfalls in place of Millet's peasant women who were gathering the fallen ears of corn.

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