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“Your women bathing come from the cow house.”

“Patience ! They will come to it gradually! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask you for companion sketches to your drawings. And this time, instead of twenty francs, they are to pay you twenty-five! (Millet replied resignedly: 'If I could only sell two drawings a week at that price all would go right!'”

“picture of 'The Forest of Fontainebleau'”

“biography-text of Diaz in 'The Barbizon painters; being the story of the men of thirty', by Arthur Hoeber, 1915”

“biography-text of Diaz in 'The painters of Barbizon : Millet, Rousseau, Diaz', by John, W. Mollett, 1890”

“What does it matter! , One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”

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