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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien, after
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Diaboliques: Le Dessous des cartes d'une partie de Whist; The Devilish Ones: The Secret of the Whist Party
Date Made:1905 print
Type:Print
Materials:Heligravure on ivory wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:Sheet: 17 9/16 in x 12 1/4 in; 44.6 cm x 31.1 cm; Plate: 11 in x 7 3/4 in; 27.9 cm x 19.7 cm; Image: 9 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in; 24.1 cm x 16.5 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: upr. r. (in plate): LE / DESSOUS / DE / CARTES / D'UNE / PARTIE / DE / WHIST; lwr. r. (in plate): Felicien Rops. Verso: lwr. r. (graphite): E. No. 1065 (Hel.).
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.379
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 bony woman standing left of center dressed in black evening dress (off the shoulder) with gloved hands over her mouth and under a ring; she is standing on a small dead (?) child and she is inside what appears to be a locked room.
From suite des "Diaboliques".

Subjects:
Photogravures

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