Don't imagine that I do not like Corot's picture, _La Prairie avec le
fossé_; on the contrary we thought, Rousseau and I, that it would be a
pity to have one picture without the other, each makes so lively an
impression of its own. You are perfectly right in liking the picture
very much. What particularly struck us in the other one was that it has
in an especial degree the look of being done by some one who knew
nothing about painting but who had done his best, filled with a great
longing to paint. In fact, a spontaneous discovery of the art! These are
both very beautiful things. We will talk about them, for in writing one
never gets to the end.
_Millet._