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Art for those who prefer the strange, sacred, and macabre.
Félicien Rops’ The Sacrifice is one of the darkest images from his notorious Les Sataniques series. Created in 1882, the work combines eroticism, death, ritual, and demonic symbolism in a stark fin-de-siècle vision of temptation and surrender. A powerful choice for collectors of occult art, Symbolism, decadent art, and macabre imagery.
Created as part of Rops’ Les Sataniques, The Sacrifice depicts a nude woman stretched across an altar beneath a monstrous demonic form. The series explored Rops’ recurring themes of Satanism, erotic obsession, decadence, and the dangerous allure of desire. Rops conceived Les Sataniques as a sequence centered on possession and temptation, ultimately producing five principal prints from the project.
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Artwork details
Félicien Rops 12" X 16" Framed print
Le Sacrifice (The Sacrifice)
From Les Sataniques, Plate IV
1882 / ca. 1882
Heliogravure / soft-ground etching reproduced in heliogravure
Belgian Symbolist / Decadent art
Public Domain Artwork
Félicien Rops, The Sacrifice, ca. 1882.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access.
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