Bords de Seine à la Bouille The drawing depicts the docking of a barge, with a horse pulling a wagon, at the pier of a small Seine marina in La Bouille, the birthplace of Héctor Malot, famous for writing "Nobody’s Boy," a celebrated 19th-century novel. The drawing is undoubtedly the study for the painting, with the same subject and title which is now in the collection of the Rouen Museum, and in which, as the only difference, the horse is found in a reversed position compared to the drawing here. In the back is another view of the long Seine at La Bouille, with a small group of houses in the background and a tugboat sailing in the placid waters; on the left, a small hint of a character, perhaps a fisherman.