Mens Divinior
Emile Berchmans
1895
Medium
etching in green on china paper
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.208
About the Artist
Emile Berchmans
Émile Berchmans (1867-1947) was a Belgian painter and one of the most important Belgian poster artists of the early twentieth century, playing a crucial role in the development of Art Nouveau graphic design in Liège. Born into an artistic dynasty—his father Émile-Édouard Berchmans was an accomplished painter and his brother Oscar a talented sculptor—Émile the Younger (as he was sometimes known) de...