In 1869, Pissarro had moved from Pontoise to Louveciennes.
He lived at the foot of the Mansart aqueduct.
He represented it here, closing the horizon and overlooking the country landscape of the time, at the beginning of spring marked by the orchards. A large courtyard is given to the empty space created by the path that fills the entire foreground. The calmness and serenity of the landscape, the limpidity of the atmosphere, had attracted the great Impressionist painters to Louveciennes.