The Crimson Curtain
Félicien ROPS
(Belgian, 1833-1898)
The Crimson Curtain
Date1886
Mediumetching
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 x 12 in. (44.5 x 30.5 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Jane and Michael G. Wilson
Object number1996.12.21
Collection
- 19th century French
On View
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This is an illustration to a short story by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, included in She-Devils (1874). The narrator, an old viscount, tells his young friend the story of his first sexual encounter with a woman, which tragically, ends with her dying in his arms.