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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Sataniques: Le Sacrifice; The Satanic Ones: The Sacrifice [Plate IV]
Date Made:1878-1879
Type:Print
Materials:Softground etching on tan wove paper
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:Mat: 22 in x 16 in; 55.9 cm x 40.6 cm; Sheet: 21 1/8 in x 13 3/4 in; 53.7 cm x 34.9 cm; Plate: 10 15/16 in x 8 1/8 in; 27.8 cm x 20.6 cm; Image: 10 1/8 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.7 cm x 16.5 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: lwr. ctr., under image (red pencil): F.R.; upr. r. (graphite): R.226 / E. 786. Verso: upr. r. (graphite): 730. Recto of mat: lwr. r. (graphite): E 786.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.394
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print depicts a woman, lower foreground, on sacrificial altar being "roped" by human/animal figure with horns and serpentine phallus in upper foreground; two half skeleton cherubs on either side of the two figures; half human, half skeleton woman figure on side of altar.

Subjects:
Etching

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