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    L,VIII—PAINTED GLASS WINDOWS EXECUTED

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    Having church - windows seen in the were...

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    L,Viii—Painted Glass Windows Executed

    L , VIII—PAINTED GLASS WINDOWS EXECUTED BY THE CARMELITE NUNS OF MANS .

    Having Church - Windows Seen In The Were...

    Having church - windows seen in the were English made b Woman y women ' s at Journal _Nantqs , , _* that 4 in Brittany beautiful ,

    where we "were paying" a visit in June of the present year , we were . nating anxious 1 to to a see lover the of atel art ier ; than for there good is painted perhaps glass nothing —nothing * more which

    fasciwould have interested us more than to have seen -women executing and arranging really beautiful colored glass windows .

    One lady it is true , is well known in the art world of England , as carrying out large orders for cathedrals and churches , but we

    know of no other in our own country . At Nantes , therefore , we inquired everywhere for these female artists and their manufactory ,

    but in vain . There are two establishments in the town , but they are not renownedand do not employ women .

    In conversation , with a friend , from whom we were far from expecting to receive any news on such a subject , we casually

    mentioned our fruitless search ; when we were told , that it was the Carmelite sisters of Mans , and not any secular lady artists at Nantes ,

    _"who were occupied in this art , and our friend proposed that we should _g"o and ask all particulars at the Carmelite Convent of Nantes . On

    our road our friend told us much about the high estimation in which these religious ladies -were held , observing that nearly all of them

    were of noble families , and giving us many curious and interesting particulars of the discipline and daily life of this strictest of all

    orders . The convent is pleasantly situated on the outskirts of Nantes . The churcha modern Gothic buildingis always open ; we

    entered , and from behind , a black grating , hung , with black curtains , we heard the voices of the invisible nuns musically chanting the

    vespers . The side of the chapel opposite to the grating was entirely made of stained glass windowscontaining figures of male and female

    saints , among whom Saint Theresa , was conspicuous . These windows were in German styleand reminded me of the modern ones in

    Cologne Cathedral , and , I thought them equally good . Those who heartily admire the modern German stained glass , or rather

    painting on glass , would pronounce these windows in the church at Nantes to be very beautiful .

    My friend took me into the parloir , and , after much waiting and long messages to and frothe sisters sent to say they had a

    pro-, gramme or prospectus of the establishment of Carmelites at Mans , which they found and gave to us .

    The effect of reading it was to create an immediate determination in our minds to go to Mans before returning to England

    , and there see whatever we could of these ladies and their works , more particularly as many details became known to me through

    * Extract in Passing Events , May , 1861 .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/28/