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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Diaboliques: Le dessous de cartes d'une partie de Whist; The Devilish Ones: The Secret of the Whist Party
Date Made:n.r.
Type:Print
Materials:Etching over heliogravure with steelfacing in blue/black ink on ivory wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:sheet: 7 1/2 in x 5 5/8 in; 19.05 cm x 14.2875 cm; plate: 4 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 9.2075 cm; image: 3 3/16 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.09625 cm x 5.715 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: upr. r. (in plate): LE / DESSOUS / DE / CARTES / D'UNE / PARTIE / DE / WHIST; lwr. r. (in plate): Felicien Rops.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.439.5
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
One of 10 objects in Portfolio: Felicien Rops . . . Les Diaboliques. 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.

Subjects:
Photogravures; Etching

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