Portrait Medal in Honour of the Writer Marguerite Van de Wiele
Date
1911Period
20th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Jenny Lorrain engraved this portrait medal for the Fonson company, which published a series of portraits of famous Belgians. Marguerite Van de Wiele was a Belgian writer, journalist and feminist after whom a street in Schaarbeek was named. There is also an annual literary prize bearing her name.
