Primavera in ValSassina, a painting with an apocryphal title, however, as the artist, seeing his work published with a similar title, asserted that he had never been in Valsassina. The small oil, probably a piedmont view over Borgotaro like the others of the period, is executed with a relaxed and sure hand, it frames a green grassy expanse dotted with white rocks and a few identical refuges, silhouetted against the background of the imposing chain of mountains that climbs to the horizon. The dynamic, almost frenetic aspect of a landscape that seems to escape the eye in a crescendo of vitality and sign complexity, is achieved through the decisive, elongated, oblique brushstroke, differently directed to suggest the variation of the slopes. From the marked horizontality, the canvas denotes a left side in which a wider and material stroke prevails that sketches lights, shadows and masses, which is echoed on the right, a much denser chromatic texture, rigorously constructed to specify the details and lead the distant eye, as if in flight, towards the snowy peaks; the shadow of the mountains colored in icy blue bounces off meadows, boulders and cottages to meet the bright greens and ocher in an acid but very bright symphony, just like it happens in cold springs at high altitudes.