Grief made marble: a nude female figure slumps in exhausted sorrow against a rocky support, her head falling back and the word "DOULEUR" ("Sorrow/Pain") carved into the base — sculptor Chérer's quietly devastating contribution to the Paris Salon of 1905 immortalized in this silver-toned photographic postcard by the Neurdein (ND) house. The blue-tinted albumen or gelatin surface of this Salon documentation card gives the already-melancholic subject an almost moonlit quality, and the close-detail crop reveals the extraordinary sensitivity of the modelling around the figure's face and torso. Numbered 1003 Gr. and unused, this card is a primary record of a Salon artwork that may survive today only in this photographic form. Paired with PC-01127 (Levasseur's "Nymphe"), these two cards appear to be from the same Neurdein Salon de 1905 series and may have been collected together, offering a rare matched set of documented Belle Époque sculpture.