Artist: Stanislas-Henri Rouart Title: Melun, 1880 Now known as La Terrasse au bord de la Seine à Melun Terrace on the Banks of Seine at Melun Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 65.5 cm Musée d'Orsay

We will not discuss Rouart and Tillot, who have no visible relationship to the milieu in which they find themselves. If their works were sent to the official Salon, they would blend in very easily with the respectable mediocrity that constitutes the majority. Eugéne Véron, L'Art, 1880