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| Jules Emile Saintin, Relief for the Sufferers of Chicago, 1872 |  Blazing Visions |
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| Saintin (1829-1894) was a distinguished French painter who spent part of his career in America, where his portrait commissions included Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas. This somberly elegant woman, dressed in mourning amid the smoking ruins (over which fly dark birds that recall those in the Fredericks drawing), stands for the chastened Christian world that so deeply shared Chicago's sense of loss and so selflessly rallied to her aid. | |||
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