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Colored (enhanced) heliogravure by the Belgian artist Félicien Joseph Victor Rops (1833 - 1898). This heliogravure was made as an illustration for the novella "Les Diaboliques" by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, where the print functions as an end plate (at the end of the book). As in so many of Rops's prints, the title is mentioned in the plate, no less than twice. Signed in the plate "F Rops" lower right. Further information in Catalog raisonné Exsteens Nº 1069 (Volume IV) and in Rouir, p. 712, Volume III. A smaller black-and-white etching with the same title was made by Rops a few years earlier.