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According to Robert P. Welsh, the present work and the related larger version (Welsh, no. A350) "obviously represent the same grouping of pollarded willow trees, and both appear to be plein-air sketches produced at the site... [the present] version is so similar in style, coloration and point of view for the artist that execution in sequence seems likely. Such flattened profiles of tree trunks as present in these paintings seem more characteristic of earlier, pre-Brabant members of the subject series than those which are likely to date from circa 1905-06" (op. cit., p. 288).