Behind a group of moss-covered rocks, a vast, flat landscape opens out with trees and scrub stretching to the horizon. The artist painted this piece during his stay in Arbúcies from the autumn of 1893 to early 1894 at the El Roqué estate owned by relatives of his friend, the journalist Pere J. Llort.
In terms of style, the depictions of trees, farmhouses and mountains of Montseny belong to the later period of influence of his teacher at the Llotja school, Modest Urgell – a strikingly realistic artist – and immediately precede his first spell in Paris, where he plunged into the capital’s nightlife, evolving from a painter of academic and realist landscapes to become an icon of the Belle Époque and Art Nouveau.