Mme. Massip, unless to M. Paul Dubois. They have the same love of art, the same soberness of tone, the same scorn of artifice. . . . The woman who has signed such a portrait is a great artist." It is well known that the famous sculptor is a remarkable portraitist.
In a review of the Salon at Nice we read: "A portrait by Mme. Massip is a magnificent canvas, without a single stroke of the charlatan. The pose is simple and dignified; there is the serenity and repose of a woman no longer young, who makes no pretension to preserve her vanishing beauty; the costume, in black, is so managed that it would not appear superannuated nor ridiculous at any period. The execution is that of a great talent and an artistic conscience. It is not a portrait for a bed-chamber, still less for a studio; it is a noble souvenir for a family, and should have a place in the salon, in which, around the hearth, three generations may gather, and in this serene picture may see the wife, the mother, and the grandmother, when they mourn the loss of her absolute presence."
Massolien, Anna. Born at Gorlitz, 1848. A pupil of G. Graf and of the School of Women Artists in Berlin. Her portraits of Field Marshal von Steinmetz, Bruckner, and G. Schmidt by their excellence assured the reputation of this artist, whose later portraits are greatly admired.
Mathilde, Princess. Medal at Paris Salon, 1865. Daughter of King Jerome Bonaparte. Born at Trieste, 1820; died at Paris, 1904. Pupil of Eugene Giraud. She painted genre subjects in water-colors. Her medal picture, "Head of a Young Girl," is in the Luxembourg;
