"It is the early morning [in the painting 'Windmill' . The sun struggles dimly amid the enveloping mist; the wind rises; then the huge old frame, with worm eaten planks, begins to creak with regular throbs, like the beatings of the heart, as the great membranous wings stretch themselves in silhouette against the pale splendor of the dawn."
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It was the picture 'Windmill' which marked the culmination of Troyon's success thus far in landscape art at the Paris' Salons, and made him 'Chevalier of the Legion of Honor'.
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