Both artists painted his portrait several times. Chocquet is conceived as a lean Quixotic type. It is a homage to a noble devotee, a man of independent conviction. The head is seen in a curious perspective, as if through a glass that narrows the face and sharply foreshortens the sides.
Outdoor tones replace the blacks and neutralized shades of the earlier portrait.
And as in the landscapes, we follow the action of the brush everywhere, spirited and frank and creating a thick fleshy paste of pigment, rich in flicker, direction, and tone. It is all built up without obvious trace of plan or guiding structural lines, as if from the spontaneous play of the brush in direct response to the man.