Oil on canvas representing a still life with red fruits: raspberries, currants and blueberries on a table, and strawberries placed in a cabbage leaf, in the background an ewer. The canvas is signed L. Piette 1867.
Ludovic Piette, known as Montfoucault (1826-1878), was a pupil of Thomas Couture, he met Edouard Manet at the Swiss Academy In 1877, he exhibited with the Impressionists and maintained a correspondence with Pissarro until his death.