C.E. Curinier, Dictionnaire National Des Contemporains: "One can say of this master that he created a genre: the "Parisianism"…he is, in effect, the painter of Paris par excellence; no different aspects of the city, often momentary and fleeting, and none of his successive transformations, is of any secret to him. The vigor of his colors, as well as in the brilliance of his mornings and of his afternoon sun, such as the mists of his twilights, is of a correct observation, that still enhances…