“Corot spoiled the 'étude' [study] we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.”

Quote in a letter to Edma, 1869, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited by Margaret Sehnan in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of Impressionism; Sutton Publishing, 1996 - (ISBN 0 7509 2339 3), p. 86
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