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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Sataniques: Le Calvaire; The Satanic Ones: Calvary [Plate V]
Date Made:1878-1879
Type:Print
Materials:Heliogravure on imitation Japan paper (?)
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:Mat: 22 in x 16 in; 55.9 cm x 40.6 cm; Sheet: 21 11/16 in x 13 3/4 in; 55.1 cm x 34.9 cm; Plate: 11 1/16 in x 8 1/8 in; 28.1 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: upr. ctr. of image on banner (in plate): BELE . . .; lwr. ctr., under image (red pencil): FR; upr. r. (graphite): (R.227) / E. 787. Verso of mat: upr. l. (graphite): 731; lwr. r., sideways (graphite): 731.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.397
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 nude woman with arms outstretched and long open robe surrounded by candles, with a satan figure nailed to a cross behind her, his legs around her with his feet binding her neck with her own hair, his phallus erect.

Subjects:
Photogravures

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