“Studio in the Miss Idastraat [in The Hague]. - Now you must not think that our studio [of Willem Maris, Mauve and other artists, 1860's] was so special. It was on the sunny side - and we had to deal with only a second window that you opened and closed according to whether it was sunny or cloudy. A gymnastics master lived below. There his pupils were practicing diligently on the rings: bòns, bòns. And above us lived a ... trombonist. Then Mauve sometimes, mad with anger, stood pounding his painting-stick against the floor and attic: 'You will stop now at last!' (translation, Fons Heijnsbroek)”