Individuality is excluded, the faces are shown schematically, and clothes are of a uniform cut, further enhancing the anonymity of the characters.

[1][2] In the center of the composition is a woman in a green jacket whose figure, presented half-turned, divides the canvas into two vertical parts.

The branches of the trees extend from each other almost at right angles; their drawing was borrowed by Macke from the A Treatise on Painting, compiled from the theoretical works of Leonardo da Vinci.

This reduction of familiar objects to simple geometric shapes was characteristic of early Cubism, including the work of Delaunay.

The artist seems to have stopped the passage of time, and the impression of peace is enhanced by the "warm autumn colors" (Magdalena Moeller) of the painting.