That splendid, head, in which everything is said that can be said; color, line, tone, expression; the slightly advanced head, with the soft, almost human eyes, I never enter my studio in the morning without my eye falling upon this creature and wishing it 'Good Morning'.

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remark about the painting 'Ramskop' of Matthijs Maris, painted c. 1860, which Mesdag bought and hanged in his house for many years

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