communicante

Updated: July 22, 2025

Behind the granddaughter, delightful in her white veil and dress of a première communicante, stands the old woman, her wrinkled face full of quiet joy. She is thinking of the past, moved by the melancholy of the bells, and she is happy with a happiness with which is mingled something of sorrow and regret. It is really exquisite. By simple means Mme. Berthe Girardet obtains broad emotional effects.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters - Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.