La Promenade offers none of the topographical points of reference that have been a major focus of research on the art of the Impressionists in 51 recent years. However, the imagery of a young man and woman in informal urban clothes, particularly the male figure's ribboned hat (a type of headgear associated with the canotier), link it with that of pleasure seekers in the Seine valley to the west of Paris. Reviewing Lise [FIGURE 12] at the Salon of 1868, Zacharie Astruc had no doubt that this female figure standing in the woods should be seen as a lower-class parisienne on an outing from the city: Figure 30 Frangois Compte-Calix. A Little Path That Leads Far, circa 1875. Oil on canvas, size and present whereabouts unknown. Reproduced from a photograph published in Goupil and Co., Salon de 1875. London, Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art. 45