Musée Félicien Rops (Félicien Rops Museum)
Namur’s best-known son was a 19th-century painter and engraver of the bizarre and the erotic. Félicien Rops led a dissolute life, mostly among the fleshpots of Paris and Brussels but despite his flirtation with drugs and absinthe he was extraordinarily skillful and prolific, a fact attested to by the 3,000-odd drawings, aquatints, lithographs, and prints exhibited in his museum, which is safely tucked away from sensitive eyes on a narrow side street near his birthplace in the old quarter of town. Rops was indisputably one of the most outstanding engravers of the late 19th century and also a vastly underrated painter; the works hung in the museum include some of his pornographic images as well as his delicate, almost wistful, landscapes. Temporary exhibitions often compare his works with other greats of his time, such as Auguste Rodin.
Namur’s best-known son was a 19th-century painter and engraver of the bizarre and the erotic. Félicien Rops led a dissolute life, mostly among the fleshpots of Paris and Brussels but despite his flirtation with drugs and absinthe he was extraordinarily skillful and prolific, a fact attested to by the 3,000-odd drawings, aquatints, lithographs, and prints exhibited in his museum, which is safely tucked away from sensitive eyes on a narrow side street near his birthplace in the old quarter of town. Rops was indisputably one of the most outstanding engravers of the late 19th century and also a vastly underrated painter; the works hung in the museum include some of his pornographic images as well as his delicate, almost wistful, landscapes. Temporary exhibitions often compare his works with other greats of his time, such as Auguste Rodin.
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