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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.

— Claude Monet

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Monet wrote Boudin this letter just after he visited the 1859 Salon.

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Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.

I have not been able to see a bit of sea or any water at all; everything is frozen and covered with snow.

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I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

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