“My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.”

—  Johan Jongkind

Jongkind's quote in an early letter (1840's), to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits; as cited by nl:Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 69

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