Corot created this study on the same trip to Italy as the view of Marino. Whereas there the view swept over the wide landscape from above, here the painter looked up into the trees from the shady path. The view is obstructed, dark rocks rise up into the middle ground, densely leafy trees rise above them and individual slender trunks block the centre, overlapping the edge of the picture. The bright blue sky and the brightly coloured rocks at the top right form a contrast. Oil studies like these already have a strong affinity with Corot's later works in Barbizon.