Regarded as one of the most distinguished representatives of Catalan genre painting, Galofré took his first steps as an artist alongside Martí i Alsina (1826—1894). Those beginnings proved critical in developing his potential as a landscape painter, in which he popularised many scenes from around Spain in a personal and picturesque vernacular.
 
During the time he spent in Rome on a four-year scholarship, he met the painter Mariano Fortuny (1838—1874), who would play a key role in his own mature style as an artist. Galofré’s practice is also reminiscent of that of Eliseu Meifrèn (1857—1940), a fellow Catalan who made a name for himself particularly for his landscapes and seascapes, of which the BBVA Collection holds some examples.
 
Dated in 1866, this picture was painted in his years as a young artist in Barcelona and was probably shown at his first exhibition, held that same year in that city. In spite of being an early painting this work already displays admirable brilliancy and skill in its execution apart from accomplished technique.
 
This may well be a practical exercise in plein air painting encouraged by Marti i Alsina, for there is a similar work of the same location painted by Eliseu Meifrèn, another pupil of the master.
 
Galofré made a thorough study of the rocky formations in the foreground, leading to a path on which we see a barely sketched peasant woman, with blue and red touches in her skirts and kerchief respectively. Executed with loose brushwork, the artist applies more matter in the clouds and on the edges of the stones.