Jakopič’s small painting of a farmhouse with an outbuilding under a row of trees is a beautiful, extremely fresh en plein air study from the Ljubljana Marshes, or perhaps even from Stranska Vas. The sufficiently fragmented, haphazard, and improvised texture of the paint-handling gives the impression that the picture surface was hastily constructed into a uniform diaphragm. Its composition was organized as a sequence of shapes parallel to the painting’s surface, as if its format echoed into the image’s depth. The white wall with pink roof reminds viewers of the earlier problematic compositions found in Matej Sternen and Ivan Grohar, and even in the photography of August Berthold. Comparing it to a version in gallery format from the personal collection shows how invaluable an ecstatic experience following the firsthand impression of the motif. Jakopič effectively adapted his brush and strokes to the illuminated spectacle of nature, creating a simply unreplicable momentary impression.