She was blunt in her comments, as reported by Sartain, who wrote: "she is entirely too slashing, snubs all modern art, disdains the Salon pictures of Cabanel, Bonnat, all the names we are used to revere".
Hun var hård i sin sine kommentarer, og som Sartain skrev: "Hun er alt for drastisk, nedgør al moderne kunst og foragter Salon-billederne af Cabanel, Léon Bonnat, alle de navne vi er vant til at prise."