Frédéric Bazille Quote

This country [landscape around Honfleur, where Bazille was painting with Monet, circa 1864] is paradise. Nowhere could you find more lush fields with more beautiful trees. Cows and horses roam freely everywhere.

In a letter to his mother, as quoted in Frédéric Bazille and early Impressionism, Marandel, Daulte et al. p. 166