Description
Two slender trees rise through the whole height of the picture, their canopies filling the upper half in dark green flecked with red and blue. Between and beyond them, a band of blue water crosses the canvas. A white sail stands at the centre left, a dark red brown sail closes the far left edge, and a paler sail sits away to the right.
On the far bank, houses with pink and grey roofs show among trees. On the near one, two figures stand together, one in blue and one in pale rose, with more small figures further off; two more sit at the lower left, one of them in pink with a hat. The ground is dappled ochre, blue and green throughout. Renoir signed at the lower right.
The composition is built on the two trunks, which cut the view into three and force you to look at the water through them rather than at it.



