Berthe Des Clayes’ Autumn, Eastern Townships is a warm, lively pastel scene of rural Quebec in the height of fall colour. A team of dark horses pulls a wagon along a curving country road, while a driver sits upright at the reins. Behind them, red-orange farm buildings glow beneath trees touched with brilliant scarlet, rust, yellow, and pale blue-grey light.

In Autumn, Eastern Townships, Berthe Des Clayes uses loose, expressive pastel strokes to create movement and atmosphere rather than hard detail. The horses, road, trees, and buildings seem to vibrate together in the same autumn air. The composition has a nostalgic rural quality, capturing the Eastern Townships as a place of working farms, changing leaves, and soft seasonal colour.