La Bibliothèque d’Émile Verhaeren : de l’intimité de la création à l’élaboration d’une image publique

This article explores the staging of the author through a comparative study of portraits: on the one hand, representations of Émile Verhaeren in his working environment by Théo Van Rysselberghe, and, on the other hand, portraits by Marthe Massin, the poet's wife. The article begins by contextualising late 19th century representations of men in their study - a room which functioned as a marker of gender, class, status and identity. It then shows how Van Rysselberghe's portraits of Verhaeren were both a testimony of their friendship and a strategy for making the poet as well as the painter visib... Mehr ...