I have experienced this country of the great mountains [Switzerland] superb!.... [but] I positively believe that nature, most appropriate to be reproduced in painting, is the modest landscape which seems just ordinarily and very insignificant. (translation from original French: Fons Heijnsbroek) (Willem Roelofs)

I have experienced this country of the great mountains [Switzerland] superb!.... [but] I positively believe that nature, most appropriate to be reproduced in painting, is the modest landscape which seems just ordinarily and very insignificant. (translation from original French: Fons Heijnsbroek)

Willem Roelofs

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