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    The Greatest Love of Don Juan
    Félicien Rops. The Greatest Love of Don Juan, 1879. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005754

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    The Greatest Love of Don Juan

    by Félicien Rops

    Provenance

    Edmond Deman (died 1918), by 1889 [Brussels 1889]. J. Odry, Brussels, by 1969-at least 1975 [Ixelles 1969; Rotterdam 1975]. Carlo de Poortere, Kortrijk and Courtai, by 1979-at least 1985 [Gent 1979; Brussels 1985]. Sold by Galerie Patrick Derom, Brussels, to the Art Institute, 1998.

    Exhibition history

    Brussels, "VIme Exposition de XX avec un Préambule," 1889, as Les Diaboliques, d’après J. Barbey d’Aurevilly. Musée d’Ixelles, "Félicien Rops," 1969, cat. 100. Namur, "Félicien Rops," 1971. Oostende, "Opera Prohibita, Félicien Rops," 1971. Knokke, Casino, "Le Symbolisme en Belgique," 1974. Cultural Center of New York, "Painters of the Mind’s Eye, Belgian Symbolists and Surrealists," 1974; also traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, ‘Le Symbolisme en Europe," November 14, 1975- January 11, 1976, cat. 197b; also traveled to the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels, Staatische Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden; and the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, "Veertig Kunstenaars rond Karel van de Woestijne," January 20-March 11, 1979, cat. 27. New York, Brooklyn Museum, "Belgian Art 1880-1914," 1980, cat. 80. Brussels, Le Botanique, "Félicien Rops," March 1-April 28, 1985, cat. 172; also traveled to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, June 6-July 21, 1985; and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice, July 31-October 15, 1985. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth", February 14-April 26, 2009, pp. 81, 86-87, fig. 88, cat. by Jay A. Clarke The Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy", June 22-September 29, 2013 The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

    Publications

    O. Mirbeau, Félicien Rops (Brussels, 1897), p. 130. C. Lemonnier, Félicien Rops (Paris, 1908). C. Mascha, Félicien Rops und sein Werk (Munich, 1910), pp. 336-339. A. Fontainas, Rops (Paris, 1925), pp. 115-119. Robert Delevoy, Gilbert Lascault, Jean-Pierre Verheggen and Guy Cuvelier, Félicien Rops (Brussels, 1985), p. 198 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Félicien Rops / Belgian, 1833-1898
    Date
    1879
    Medium
    Graphite with stumping, scratching and erasing on off-white wove paper, prepared with a white gouache ground (scratchboard)
    Dimensions
    25.3 × 18 cm (10 × 7 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    Belgium
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Margaret Day Blake Collection
    Accession no.
    1998.75

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