Painted in Marseille in 1916, this luminous oil on canvas captures the port's quiet grandeur through Marquet's characteristically spare yet deeply felt vision. Two vessels rest in the harbor, their forms rendered with an economy of means that belies the painting's remarkable atmospheric density. The water shifts through subtle gradations of grey, blue, and ochre, while the sky above presses down with that particular Mediterranean weightlessness that Marquet spent decades learning to transcribe. The composition breathes with stillness, the boats anchored not merely in water but in time itself. Marquet returned repeatedly to the ports of France throughout his career, and works from this wartime period carry an added resonance, a sense of the world held in suspension. Marseille offered him a subject at once monumental and intimate, and this canvas demonstrates how confidently he could organize a horizontal expanse into something emotionally charged. His touch is assured without being demonstrative, the brushwork loose enough to suggest movement while remaining structurally tight. The tonal harmony across the picture surface reflects his deep admiration for Corot and his parallel engagement with the lessons of Fauvism, absorbed and then disciplined into something quieter and more enduring. At 60 by 73 centimeters, the work is a generous intimate scale, substantial enough to anchor a room while retaining the directness of an observation made on the spot. Signed by the artist and presented framed, this painting is accompanied by its offering through Galerie la Presidence. Examples of Marquet's port subjects from the 1910s are increasingly sought by collectors who prize the sustained quietism of early twentieth century French painting, and this work stands as a particularly fine exemplar of that tradition.