Starting in 1897, Adolphe Wansart worked in the studio of Charles Van der Stappen at the Brussels Academy, where he increasingly focused on sculpture while continuing to draw and paint.
[5] Henri Kerels' monograph on Wansart lists a total of 85 works: 68 monuments, compositions, and portraits, 13 medals, and 4 pieces of copperware.
He described Wansart as an artist "whose strong Portrait of his Wife is a magnificent example of the modern feeling for volume with solid surfaces and large lines, without too great a deviation from nature or too strict an attachment to reality.
The most notable is the 24-meter-long relief titled "Liège, Arts et Sciences," which adorns the entrance to the Palais des Fêtes, constructed for an international exhibition on water technology in 1939.
This knight symbolizes the Burgundian Netherlands, one of the four historical periods depicted on either side of the Pont des Arches in Liège.