Paintings of gardens enjoyed widespread acceptance in Catalonia and Meifrèn engaged with that subject matter on countless occasions. In this case, the artist uses the garden to study the effect of light filtering through the vegetation. Choosing a cypress as the central axis of the composition, he arranges the vegetation around it, domesticated by the steps, a low wall and a path leading towards the hillside which provides a backdrop broken only by the small strip of sky on the top of the painting.

Meifrèn was very popular among the bourgeoisie of his time. He frequently painted seascapes, in which he specialised, but also landscapes, a genre he helped to renovate. Using technical innovations and exploring a path close to Impressionism, although never actually joining any group, his greatest obsessions were light and colour, and landscape offered him the ideal format to research into those two features.

A journey to Paris in 1890, where he acquainted himself with the work of the impressionists, as well as his connection with the Luminismo of the Sitges group, are the origins of his bright colourful palette and his skill in capturing atmospheric effects.

His oeuvre is uplifting and vivid, and his palette boasts an exuberant colour and a broad chromatic spectrum. After his contact with Mallorca red and green tones began to appear in his works, the treatment of shadows and lights acquired greater relevance and gardens and courtyards became more frequent subject matters. His short and precise brushstroke skilfully captured the light filtering through the vegetation and reflecting into the atmosphere. Meifrèn’s vital and agile painting boasts a vigorous and free-flowing brushwork that would never lose the power of a palette rich in nuances and its ability to capture light.