on his copy of Paolo Veronese's The Flight of Loth (AKA Flight from Sodom). While he again took up places at the academies, it was more for want of a place to work, later remarking that he "took little interest" in their teaching.

Amongst his associates in Paris was a painter from Rennes in Brittany, Charles Nitsch. The two painted together around Rennes and Pacé, Ille-et-Vilaine, often sharing the same subjects.