Indian ink drawing of the port of Bordeaux seen from the right bank of the Bastide, still uncultivated. The Bourse maritime and the steeples of the Saint-Louis church form, with the cranes of the port (where the clouds seem to hang), the sky line of the landscape.

The water of the Garonne occupies a large part of the drawing. The silhouettes of only two commercial ships bear witness to the decline of the maritime activity of this great river port, which has been moved downstream to the mouth of the Gironde.

This drawing is a testimony to the Chartrons district where her father’s family lived, having moved to 69 rue Notre-Dame at the end of the 19th century from the hamlet of Mayne in the Gironde village of Salles. It also bears witness to the artist’s childhood admiration for this majestic river. Indeed, she often recalled her disappointment when, at the age of 10, she discovered the much more modest width of the Seine in the capital Paris.