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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 9499069, member: 1476&quot;]I don&#039;t want to belabor this but...&nbsp; Given &quot;the despair of genius&quot; is a quote from the French poet André Chénier, is there a reason you don&#039;t believe the figure to represent André Chénier?&nbsp; Or use him to symbolize the struggling artist more generally?&nbsp; He is dressed in a costume correct for the pre-revolutionary period, the portraits above him are of the same period, he is surrounded by strewn papers symbolizing aborted creative effort and the (informal) tools of the creative trade (e.g. cigarettes, alcohol, coffee.)&nbsp; The phrase is not an unknown one; it was used by both Dickens and Bulwer Lytton.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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