I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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note 5: 20 June 1887, - Corot’s biographer Alfred Robaut told this story (1905. Vol. 1. P. 336)
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He [ Corot ] is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
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