Excerpt from Old and Modern Masters in the Collection of M.C.D. Borden, Vol. 2
Pool in the Forest (with its superb design of tree tops against the sky) is a site in the forest of Fontainebleau, and Sunset was prob ably painted in the neighborhood of the same forest, near the home of the artist, Barbizon or Marlotte. They have a grave look, some: thing of the same lofty seriousness of Ruysdael, and an intensity of expression which embraces detail and ensemble. They depic't nature as it is, but seen with devout concentration of thought through a noble temperament.
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