"Year after year I went with Troyon to Barbizon. On rainy days, when we were unable to sketch in the forest, we visited the farms where the watchers of cattle and the tenders of geese posed as our models; more often still to the stables, where we painted the animals. Here Troyon executed the most charming things in the world; and from 1846 to 1848 I constantly implored him to introduce them into his landscapes."
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Ad. Charropin (friend of Troyon) to art-collector Ph. Burty; as quoted in Constant Troyon and Charles-François Daubigny at the Union League Club, chapter 'Troyon' by W.H. Fuller - the catalogue of November Exhibition 1895; publisher, Gallison & Hobron, New York 1895, p. 8
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