Among her works are:  “L’Enfant Malade,” bought by the city of Paris and placed in the Petit Palais des Champs Elysees; a group called the “Grandmother’s Blessing,” purchased by the Government and placed in a public museum; the bust of an “Old Woman,” acquired by the Swiss Government and placed in the Museum of Neuchatel; a group, the “Madonna and Child,” for which the artist received the gold medal; and two groups illustrating the prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread.”  Also portrait statues and busts belonging to private collections.

At the Salon des Artistes Francais, 1902, Mme. Girardet exhibited the “Grandmother’s Blessing” and “L’Enfant Malade.”  At the same Salon, 1903, the two groups illustrating the Lord’s Prayer.

A writer, G. M., in the Studio of December, 1902, writes:  “Prominent among the women artists of the day whose talents are attracting attention is Mme. Berthe Girardet.  She has a very delicate and very tender vision of things, which stamps her work with genuine originality.  She does not seek her subjects far from the life around her; quite the reverse; and therein lies the charm of her sculpture—­a great, sincere, and simple charm, which at once arouses one’s emotion.  What, for instance, could be more poignantly sad than this ‘Enfant Malade’ group, with the father, racked with anxiety, bending over the pillow of his fragile little son, and the mother, already in an attitude of despair, at the foot of the bed?  The whole thing is great in its profound humanity.

“The ‘Benediction de l’Aieule’ is less tragic.  Behind the granddaughter, delightful in her white veil and dress of a premiere 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.  She won a great and legitimate success at the Salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais.”

GLEICHEN, COUNTESS. Bronze medal at Paris Exposition, 1900.  Honorable member of Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colors, of Royal Society of Painter Etchers.  Sculptor.  Pupil of her father, Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, and of the Slade School, London; also of Professor Legros.  She has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy since 1893.

In 1895 she completed a life-size statue of Queen Victoria for the Victoria Hospital, Montreal.  The Queen is represented in royal robes, with one child asleep on her knee, while another, with its arm in a sling, stands on the steps of the throne.  Shortly before the Queen’s death she gave sittings to Countess Gleichen, who then executed a bust of her majesty, now at the Cheltenham Ladies’ College.  The Constitutional Club, London, has her bust of Queen Alexandra, which was seen at the Academy in 1895.