 At the Salon of 1869, he exhibited "Au Bois Rossignolet," a landscape painting that was more aligned with his interest in landscapes and received critical acclaim for it.He went on to execute many landscapes that are very close to Corot's late manner of painting.Indeed, the artist first came to public attention when one of his landscapes was sold to Alexandre Dumas’s son as a work by Corot in a celebrated forgery incident.