Devilish temptation
19/10/2024 - 09/03/2025
The Musée Félicien Rops presents the exhibition L’Album du diable: Les tentations de Félicien Rops. Between 1878 and 1882, Félicien Rops passionately worked on a series of drawings that are now considered his masterpieces. During this period, he created an album with 114 drawings, humorously depicting his view on the love practices of his time. Parallel to this, he designed an Album du Diable illustrating the power of the femme fatale. In 1881, he announced that he had made 65 drawings for this ‘devilish’ album, which was never published. Most of these works remain unknown.
The exhibition explores various themes dear to Rops: the presence of the devil, animality, the book as an object of depravity, and skeletons.