Les Marguerites depicts a summer meadow in flower, seen from its near edge and looking across towards a distant village under a wide sky. The foreground is filled with white marguerites, their yellow centres set among long green grass, and a band of red flowers runs across the middle distance where the meadow meets a line of trees and shrubs. To the left, foliage and a taller tree frame the view, and beyond the greenery the roofs and a church spire of a small village sit low on the horizon. Above, the pale blue sky is broken by soft white and pink clouds that fill the upper half of the composition.

Jean Kevorkian was born in Paris in 1933, a French Impressionist painter of landscape and marine subjects. Largely self-taught, he took his direction from the French Impressionists who preceded him, and painted the countryside and villages of provincial France, the Île-de-France and the banks of the Seine and Oise, as well as the coast of Brittany around Saint-Malo and Finistère, across the changing seasons. Les Marguerites, with its flowering summer meadow and distant village, belongs to this body of rural French landscape painting, its title taken from the marguerite daisies that fill the field.