This plate is actually a heliogravure Evely after a drawing by Félicien Rops. It served as the frontispiece for Joséphin Péladan's novel Le vice suprême. It illustrates the theme of the epic created by this writer: the end of the Latin races (Finis Latinorum).
The Supreme Vice, 1884
- photoaquatints (prints), paper
- Inv. 2011-DI
Félicien Rops
Namur 1833 - Corbeil-Essonnes 1898
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