Among Troyon's paintings there are two huge ones; Return to the Farm is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. There is much windy motion in the clouds, and the cows and dogs are very good. In Going to the Market you see the mist at sunrise. It's superb and, most of all, very luminous. The wide space in View from Surennes is amazing. You feel you are really in the countryside

1859 letter to Eugène Boudin, June 3, 1859; Cited in Rodolphe Rapetti (1990) Monet, p. 11: Monet wrote to Boudin just he had visited the 1859 Salon. - 1850–1870