“And I would be little surprised,
if a few of the impressionists would find
repeating my way of doing,
that has rather been fertilized
by the ideas of Delacroix,
than theirs.”

It would be good to keep this
well anchored in our head
when we pronounce
the dangerous qualificative
of post impressionist.

The ideas of Delacroix
on color and speed
were passing through all the mature opus
of the Dutch master
both from his notebooks
and his studies and this,
until the end of his life.
Why not as well say it
high and loud in front of
the consensual conventionalities.