The work was one of four pieces painted by Lim Kim Hai in 1985, when visiting the father of a former classmate in Limoges, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It was an unusual watercolour piece by Kim Hai who now paints mainly in oil on canvas. It captures the sprawling countryside and dry vegetation with obvious benefits of modern amenities as shown by the telegraph poles leading to the cosy homestead. Limoges is the birthplace of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841- 1919).