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  • What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

    "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 164), 1975.