"..and if you suddenly turn around, it seems as if the detachment of Breitner's cavalry [painting 'Upcoming Hussars'] is direrctly tearing up to you, because there is so much life in the painting. But you have to satisfy yourself with that first impression. The work doesn't withstand a further investigation; then the horses appear badly drawn, as also the horsemen who are more smudges than human forms. Breitner misses his goal by his his exaggeration of an direction which seeks to represent an impression full of unity and strength, and he lapses into the aberrations of Impressionism. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"