The small-format landscape painting opens up from Poljane towards the Ljubljana Castle. We see the cathedral (its dome was constructed in 1841), the Franciscan church, the church atop Rožnik in the background, and even further on the horizon the outlines of Grmada and Tošč in the Polhov Gradec Hills. Fields, architecture, and mountains are painted in bands, and the main purpose of the study was to explore hues and colored surfaces: green is reserved for the meadow and the trees, yellow for the fields, and brown and beige for the buildings. The aerial perspective is saturated with the golden hues of evening’s descent.

Franke painted this scene shortly after returning from a trip to China, where he produced a few landscape paintings in an advanced technique, and a year before beginning his career as a teacher, which rendered him more conservative. The painting depicts this transition: the loving couple in the bottom left corner and the spacious “ledge” upon which they’re standing are both holdovers from the Biedermeier period, as well as the emphasis on horizontal bands, though the artistic execution is more modern and about to enter larger picture formats.