The tall fellow Bazille has done something I find quite fine: a young girl in a very light dress in the shadow of a tree beyond which one sees a town. There is a good deal of light, sunlight, He is trying to do what we [Berthe and her sister Edma both painted, then] have so often tried to bring off: to paint a figure in the open air. This time I think he has succeed.

Remark to her sister Edma, after visiting the Salon of Paris in 1869; as quoted in The history of Impressionism by John Rewald, (Fourth edition), Museum of Modern Art, 1974, New York p. 643