Art, literature & history
Capital Punishment: The Pain of Death (Todesstrafe: La peine de mort)
c. 1880
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- softground etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.7 x 32.4 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.); Platemark: 36.5 x 26.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2014.328
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félicien Rops. Capital Punishment: The Pain of Death (Todesstrafe: La peine de mort). Félicien Rops; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bequest of John Bonebrake. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Capital Punishment: The Pain of Death (Todesstrafe: La peine de mort) — Félicien Rops. c. 1880.
Medium: softground etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 47.7 x 32.4 cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.); Platemark: 36.5 x 26.5 cm (14 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.