Beside a kneeling gardener, who cuts the bushes, stands a young girl knitting; at right, an old tree trunk; in the background, a gateway made of stakes and poles.
Profile facing left, he holds in one hand his bass-viol and bow, with the other he is about to open a volume. Published in "Fifty impressions of 10 etchings by Alphonse Legros... Holloway and Son... London."