A winged woman with a skull as her head, standing in a man's pelvis, holding in one hand a bow and in the other a man's severed head. Soft ground etching by Félicien Rops.

[Place of publication not identified] : G. Edinger ed. ([Paris] : Imp. A. Delâtre)

1 print : soft ground etching ; image 15 x 8 cm

In lombis! Diaboli virtus. St Augustin. Fely Rops. The quotation appears to be from Saint Augustine, Epistola XLIII ad Chromatium, Iovinum et Eusebium, "ego in scelerum meorum sepulcro iacens, et peccatorum vinculis colligatus, Dominicum de Evangelio clamorem: "Hieronymi veni foras". Bonosus, inquam (quia, secundum prophetam, omnis diaboli virtus in lumbis est) trans Euphratem tulit lumbare suum") The reference to the prophet taking a girdle (lumbare) to the Euphrates refers to O.T. Jeremiah XIII, though the phrase "omnis diaboli virtus in lumbis est" is not used there

Wellcome Collection 28643i

After a drawing by Rops in the Musée du Louvre (inv. no. RF 1870-05265), exhibited in Félicien Rops 1833-1898, Brussels, Paris and Nice 1985, exhibition catalogue Brussels 1985, no. 195