By a white stone column on a square pedestal, in one of the flowerbeds of André's parterre, a group of women is digging and planting the soil – two bent over right by the column, two more kneeling and working the bed on the right, and five others standing together talking, among them one man in a hat and coat. In the background, along the low brick wall, stands an old flatbed truck, a small child sits on a bench, and behind them rises the palace façade with its pointed-arch entrance and large windows, framed by now fully grown, clipped conifers.
This is the same geometric parterre system designed by Édouard André that we have already seen in several other exhibits in this exhibition (No. 16, 59–61) – only photographed much later, in the Soviet era. The estate was nationalised in 1940, and from 1957 the palace housed the administration of the Lentvaris carpet factory (exhibit No. 19) – this photograph shows that the old park's upkeep continued even after the change of owners and the building's new purpose.
The animation colours the photograph: the sky turns a clear blue, the grass and conifers a rich green, the women's coats take on shades of dark green, mauve and brown, and the truck in the background becomes dark green.