Lami was a keen sportsman and an expert deer hunter. Early on in life he joined a pack at La Falaise where he visited family friends, Monsieur and Madame de Murinas. It was in this early period that he executed a series of watercolors on the country life of the gentry during the late Restoration, which he entitled La Vie de Château and which was published by his brother in a series of lithographs in 1828.
The present drawing dates from 1839, yet it has retained much of the gentle tone of these earlier mild caricatures of country life. The composition shows enraged huntsmen, elegantly dressed, who are deprived of the pleasure of "good sport" by the insensitive action of a typical Norman peasant, dressed in his blouse, who has shot their prey