"..learn to draw: that's where most of you [Troyon's pupils] are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you …"

"I have made as many as eighteen [rather definitive sketches of cattle] in one month.."

"Year after year I went with Troyon to Barbizon. On rainy days, when we were unable to sketch in the forest, we visite…"

"In 1846 Troyon went to the Netherlands, and at the Hague saw Paul Potter's famous 'Young Bull'. From the studies he m…"

"It is the early morning [in the painting 'Windmill' . The sun struggles dimly amid the enveloping mist; the wind rise…"

"Among Troyon's paintings there are two huge ones; 'Return to the Farm' is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. Th…"

"Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture [in Paris]? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refus…"

"Your description of Troyon and Rousseau, for instance, is lively enough to give me some idea of which of their manner…"

"The first years of the painter [Troyon] were dogged by poverty, which saturated his spirit with a bitterness from whi…"

"It was accident and a journey to Holland which revealed to Troyon his true mission, that of an animal painter of the …"