This miniature watercolour by Willard Morse Mitchell (1879–1955)
depicts The Seminary of the Sulpicians on Notre Dame Street in Montreal,
one of the city’s most historic religious institutions. The work is
accompanied by its original printed label on the reverse, identifying
the subject and authenticating both the painting and its hand-carved
frame.

The painting shows the stately stone facade of the
Sulpician Seminary, one of Montreal’s oldest surviving buildings,
established in the late 17th century. Mitchell captures the grand,
fortress-like architecture with its warm ochre tones and rhythmic rows
of small windows. The winter setting is animated by a horse-drawn sleigh
gliding along the snow-covered street, the passengers warmly dressed
and wrapped in bright red blankets—a recurring motif in Mitchell’s
miniature Quebec scenes.