Lot 537
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Félicien Rops

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Félicien Rops

La Sieste (E. 396)

soft ground etching, 1879, 3rd (final) state, on cream wove paper, signed in red crayon, with margins, with an unidentified red ink collector's stamp, with pencil inscriptions, minor surface dirt also at the reverse, handling creases, residual papertape along the reverse upper edge, otherwise in good condition
P, 232 x 292 mm. ; S. 347 x 547 mm.;

A heliograph printed in colours after Rops (E. 894); and A heliograph after Rops (E. 913) (3)

Lot Essay

The collector's stamp possibly of Charles Mendiot, known as a collector of Rops' finest prints (differs from Lugt 601)

See illustration, p. 209

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