Les muses sataniques

Death rubs shoulders with amorous passion; the woman is escorted by Satan. The work of Félicien Rops, born in Namur in 1833, is not limited to erotic engravings. His muses inspired him with images of Beauty as well as Horror: the inseparable components of a sensibility that seeks to explore the limits of being. In his abundant correspondence, with the same ferocity as in his drawings and engravings, he denounces all forms of hypocrisy; with the same voluptuousness, he describes passion; with the same tenderness, he speaks of love.