Le Sphinx - Grand Planche (Les Diaboliques)
Félicien ROPS
(Belgian, 1833-1898)
Le Sphinx - Grand Planche (Les Diaboliques)
Date1882
Mediumetching
DimensionsOverall: 21 5/8 x 14 in. (54.9 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationPRINTS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Jane and Michael G. Wilson
Object number1996.12.37
Collection
- 19th century French
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Rops was commissioned by the publisher Alphonse Lemerre to illustrate Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Les Diaboliques (in English, The She-Devils, 1874), short stories that were considered scandalously shocking when they first appeared. The Symbolist femme-fatale is represented by the sphinx, around whose neck a fallen woman clings, while the devil smugly looks on.
