Rops engraved "Mors syphilitica" symbolised by a horrible and only half-emaciated woman. She leans her shoulder against a door behind which she must be watching for a dying debauchee. With her mouth gaping, she raises a defiant look to the sky... Behind her, we can see the edge of the scythe.
| Artist |
Félicien Rops
RKD
VIAF
Wikidata
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| Title | Mors syphilitica (Syphilitic Death) |
| Period | 19th century |
| Medium and support | drypoint AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | monogram outside the depiction, centre below: FR |
| collector's stamp bottom right, outside the depiction: i :P :H :. | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type |
drypoint
AAT
ink drawing |
| Inventory number | 2011-EA |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum 2012 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2011-EA |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6148/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300055865 symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31AA4624(SYPHILIS)
skin and venereal diseases: syphilis - AA - epidemic diseases
Iconclass
31B6213 looking sideways Iconclass 31FF23 Death as man - FF - Death as female Iconclass 33C5 prostitution Iconclass 33C52 whore, prostitute Iconclass 33C521 courtesan, hetaera Iconclass 41A3211 open door Iconclass 41D25 underclothes and nightwear Iconclass 47I15(SCYTHE) agricultural implements: scythe Iconclass 55B2 Luxury, Luxuriousness Iconclass 56B41 Fastidiousness, Epicurism Iconclass 56DD34 Horror, Abhorrence Iconclass 57AA5 Indecency, Impudence; 'Sfacciatigine' (Ripa) Iconclass 57AA91 Cruelty, Ferocity; 'Crudelta', 'Ferocita' (Ripa) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
realism (artistic form of expression)
AAT
Symbolism (artistic concept) AAT |
| L' oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Félicien Rops : Tome premier: Catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographié ; Tome second: Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé. Première Partie: Études et compositions ; Tome Troisième: Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé. Deuxième Partie: Frontispices et illustrations. Troisième Partie: Menus, lettrines, marques et invitations. Quatrième Partie: Planches d'essais ; Tome quatrième: Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé. Cinquième Partie: Planches libres. Catalogues des Reproductions: Table Alphabétique des Planches Décrites / Maurice Exsteens. - Paris : Éditions Pellet, 1928 (vol. II, nr. 353) |
| Félicien Rops : Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié ; Tome I. Les lithographies ; Tome II - III: Les eaux-fortes / Eugène Rouir. - Bruxelles : Claude Van Loock, 1987-1992 (vol. III, p. 550, nr. 818) |
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