Prudent's works often feature flat keys, and it seems he naturally chose these tonalities in pursuit of soft and gentle expression. Pastoral and idyllic character pieces are frequently found in his compositions from the 1850s. Marmontel, a friend of Prudent and a professor at the Conservatoire, recalled Prudent's affinity for nature, noting that Prudent enjoyed fishing, as follows:

It was precisely in his character pieces that Prudent manifested his individuality in a more distinctive manner. Descriptive music and genre-painting-style music were particularly appealing to him as a poetic musician. Prudent, who passionately loved nature in the realm of dreams, often drew inspiration very skillfully from pastoral themes, bucolic love poems, and idylls. [...] However, according to a remarkable paradox I heard from the artist himself during a candid conversation about music, Prudent did not favor landscape painters and did not belong to the common people who admired vast horizons. Harmonies imitating nature, the sweet murmur of nature, resonated within him.

In this piece, which is in rondo form, the short descending motif in the introduction is fully utilized in the main section's episodes, evoking a pleasant breeze.