Saturday, 29 July 1882

It seems to me, however, that it is impossible to execute this picture entirely out of doors. The effect is not one of full daylight, and the evening lasts barely an hour... So I shall not be able to copy it as one does for ordinary pictures, as Bastien-Lepage does, and indeed all those who work in the open air. Ah, I am meeting here with too great difficulties. Well — I shall do it in Algeria as best I can, and then if there are things to redo... Or even if it has to be begun again... I shall at least have brought back the document...