Signed, this small oil on panel by Charles-Henri Contencin (1898–1955) shows the Barre des Écrins, Dauphiné, France.

The mountains that form the Massif des Écrins rear up in the western French Alps, in a region known as the Dauphiné. Contencin returned to the area many times during his painting and climbing career, and the Écrins's peaks still offer some spectacular climbing with a lighter footfall of visitors in the late summer season. The Glacier Blanc tumbles off the north-east face of the highest mountain in the Dauphiné, the Barre des Écrins (4102m), and extends for over three miles down into the Pelvoux Valley.

Collectors of Contencin's work and of the Massif des Écrins will find this a compact companion piece to his larger canvas of the same mountain range, this one worked on the smaller, more intimate scale of panel.