This delicately executed watercolour depicts the church of Saint Lawrence viewed from the road into Rijnsburg from the south-west, the route into the town from La Fargue's native city, The Hague. Originally a Romanesque Benedictine abbey, founded in 1133, the building was destroyed in 1574 and rebuilt as a new church. However, as we can see from la Fargue's careful drawing, part of one of the original abbey towers was retained, giving the church spire its slightly unusual Romanesque appearance. This was evidently a view that appealed to the artist, as there are also two known oil on panel versions of the scene; one larger version, signed 'P.C. la Fargue', sold at Dobiaschofsky, Bern, 26 October 1967, lot 259, in which the staffage is less complex - the nine figures of the present drawing are reduced to a single mounted figure conversing with a man in the centre of the street and a pack mule waiting with a dog. The second, which shows only a mother and child disappearing down the road, was formerly attributed to Emanuel Murant, and is now tentatively given to La Fargue by Charles Dumas, (sold at Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 2015, lot 43). However, Dumas has pointed out that this work has been heavily overpainted, making it difficult to confirm the attribution.