This view of the market on the Boulevard de Reuilly in the 12th arrondissement of Paris is built in strata, with a crowd in front of illuminated displays, especially of fruit at the bottom right, the horizontal roofs of the merchants’ stalls half-canvas and the black and leafless trees in front of the facades of buildings at the top of the canvas. The architecture of a kiosk emerging from the market under the trees ensures the vertical stability of the work.

Under the rectilinear and dark network formed by the black branches of the plane trees, the warmer and brighter touches of colour at the bottom of the canvas bear witness to the warm vivacity of these open-air Parisian markets that the artist paints with obvious pleasure.

Two children’s round balls on the right, the purple silhouette of a ghostly sweater standing out at the foot of the kiosk and a small dog followed by his mistress on the first floor catch our eye and bring touches of pictorial poetry inherent to these popular places.