In 1884, Gari and American painter George Hitchcock traveled to Holland. The artists founded a studio and an art colony and painted scenes of Dutch peasants. Here Gari painted "The Sermon", 1886. It received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon that year and a gold medal in Munich at the International Salon there in 1888. [https://elle-belle10.livejournal.com/tag/genre]