"Sir, I have completed the picture ['Les Faneurs / Haymakers', 1849] which you were kind enough to order, and have exe…"

"My dear Sensier, - I shall be greatly obliged if after reading and sealing the enclosed letter, you will take it to R…"

"To tell the truth, peasant subjects suit my nature best, for I must confess, at the risk of your taking me to be a So…"

"I work like a gang of slaves; the day seems five months long. My wish to make a winter landscape has become a fixed i…"

"[[w:Théophile Gautier|[Theophile] Gautier's]] article is very good. I begin to feel a little more contented. His rema…"

"You are sitting under the trees, feeling all the ease, all the tranquility that can possibly be enjoyed; you see some…"

"My dear Rousseau, I do not know if the two sketches which I enclose will be of any use to you. I merely wish to show …"

"Barbizon Thursday, My dear [Alfred] Sensier: M. Letrone, whom I do not know.. ..came yesterday [to the house of Mille…"

"They [the Paris art-critics] wish to force me into their drawing-room art, to break my spirit. No, no! I was born as …"

"What do I care? 'I don't come here [studying with the Paris' artist & teacher Paul Delaroche to please anybody. I com…"