A huge Christmas tree topped with a glowing star rises in a snowy Parisian plaza, covered in warm golden lights. The Eiffel Tower glows faintly amber in the distance, while snow-dusted bare trees and an ornate lit stone building with arched windows frame the scene. A crowd in long coats, top hats and gowns drifts across the snow as loosely painted dark silhouettes.

Warm lamplight and shop windows glow against a cool, deep teal sky, and their light pools on the wet snow. Snowflakes of varying sizes fall through a soft haze of bokeh. Thick palette-knife dabs in the snow and tree lights give the oil painting an impressionistic, tactile surface and a nostalgic Belle Époque holiday mood.