The Balsan's estate of Saint-Georges-Motel was by far and above Maze's favourite place and the subject of many paintings. This pastel conjures up a visual image of the Château as recounted in Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan's memoirs: The Glitter and the Gold, 1953:

"So about 1926 we began to look for a small place near Paris, and happily at Saint-Georges-Motel came upon the little château where thereafter we spent our summers. It was love at first sight ..Situated on the border of Normandy near the forest of Dreux, It stood in a glade of high trees; one saw it only as entering the gates one came down from the village through a wide avenue of great lindens and chestnuts. It was a tall elegant house built of pink bricks and was capped by a high roof of blue slates. In its narrow centre were evenly spaced windows through which one saw running water and green parterres beyond."