Eugène Müntz
“Studying nature with passion, and all the independenceproper to his character, he could not fail to combineprecision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in thisfinal emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling,of illumination, and of expression, this breadth andfreedom, that the master’s raison d’être and glory consist.Others may have struck out new paths also; but nonetravelled further or mounted higher than he.”