This evocative painting captures a bustling riverside scene during a flood in Rouen, with the Seine swollen and dynamic under a brooding sky. The artist’s brushwork, loose yet deliberate, conveys the restless energy of the water and the surrounding urban life. A muted palette of grays, blues, and earth tones melds to create a misty, almost melancholic atmosphere, where the industrial smoke and the crowded quayside hint at the pulse of a 19th-century port city grappling with nature’s force. The river slices through the composition diagonally, guiding the eye toward distant buildings softened by haze, while boats and barges drift in the churning currents, their forms sketched with a blend of precision and impressionistic freedom.