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He profited from it above all in being able to continue to paint. For the fact remains that, from the time of his youngest efforts, such as "The Patrol Removing a Body from an Outpost", his earliest known work, one of the collection that his father bought, to swell somewhat that famous monthly income of fifteen francs, he never abandoned his brushes.
We left him unsuccessfully exhibiting, at the Salon of 1834, a small painting, dealing with a Flemish subject. Let us add, as a final word, that this "genre" picture was accompanied by an aquarelle, entered in the catalogue of that date as: "Soldier to Whom in the Citizen's House, a Young Girl serves a Mug of Beer". This aquarelle was purchased for one hundred francs by the Society of Friends of Art.