Wille left Paris for Saint-Germain on 14th September 1761 together with his son, M. Hin painter to the Duc de Deux Points, M. Zingg the engraver and the landscape painter Weirother. The following day the party arrived at Vernon in Normandy. 'Notre objet' as Wille explained in his journal 'étoit d'y dessiner le paysage et nous y trouvâmes, en effet, presque tout digne d'être dessiné. Ce pays est charmant pour cela'. The present drawing is a characteristic example of the plein air sketches from nature Wille produced on his numerous sketching tours. On 20th September Wille and his companions left Vernon by foot 'dessinant toujours, chemin faisant, les objets qui nous parurent bons de l'être', and arrived back in Paris on 22 September, J.-G. Wille, Mémoires et Journal de J.-G. Wille graveur du roi, Paris, 1857, I, pp. 178-9