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Confessional, Toledo
Félicien Rops1889
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Rops, an avant-garde Belgian graphic artist, abandoned his early realist style for a symbolist approach characterized by erotic, fantasy, and satanic overtones following a meeting with the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). These traits, however, are not apparent in this drawing of a Spanish priest kneeling in a confessional listening to an unseen penitent.
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Details
- Title: Confessional, Toledo
- Creator: Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898)
- Date Created: 1889
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898)
- Provenance: Joseph F. McCrindle (1923-2008), New York, #A1409; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, New York, 2008, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: graphite and wash on paper
- Inscriptions: [Transcription] Tolède 1889
- Exhibitions: Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.
- Dimensions: H: 5 3/4 x W: 4 3/4 in. (14.61 x 12.07 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2009
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.2804
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