“I have lingered among the nymphs of Corot, dancing in the sacred wood of Ville-d'Avray.”

—  Paul Gauguin

quote in a letter - late in Gauguin's life, from the Marquesas-Islands; as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 185
1890s - 1910s

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