"Le Premier Chagrin" by Daniel Ridgway Knight (1892, oil on canvas).

I have always loved this painting ever since I saw it a few years ago. There's something so relatable in the face of the girl with the basket -- the feeling of being young and witnessing true pain in a close friend. You want to help or do something, and you wonder if what you are doing is enough.

The painting touches me each time I view it.

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