Painted in 1930, Le village de Choisel captures a quiet corner of the French countryside with the luminous, color-saturated touch that defined Louis Valtat's mature practice. Working in oil on canvas at an intimate scale of 38.1 by 55.9 centimetres, Valtat builds the village scene through richly layered strokes, allowing warm and cool tones to animate the surface with a vitality that recalls his early associations with the Fauves while demonstrating the more tempered, reflective sensibility he had developed by this later period. The composition balances architectural solidity with the organic movement of foliage and sky, a tension Valtat navigated with particular confidence throughout his career. Valtat spent formative years working alongside Renoir, Signac, and the circle that would shape the course of Post-Impressionism in France, and his engagement with pure color as a structural force remained a constant throughout his long output. By 1930, his work had shed any sense of provocation in favor of a deeply felt and quietly joyful relationship with the southern and rural landscapes he favored. Le village de Choisel belongs to this assured late chapter, bearing the artist's signature and carrying a certificate of authenticity from the Association Les Amis de Louis Valtat, the body dedicated to the preservation and documentation of his legacy. The work is also recorded in the association's archives, providing collectors with a secure and well-documented provenance.