A little boy in the foreground holds a colourful marble in his hand as he tries to look at it from a good perspective. The work is painted using mainly blue tones (Amandine Samyn is a great admirer of Fra Angelico, his skies, his faces and the blue clothes of his Madonnas). There is a single dot of red, and if you look closely you will see that it is not painted, but that there is a hole there. And on closer inspection, that’s not a marble, but an Amarena. Edouard Manet’s Boy with Cherries looked out at the viewer with his pile of fruit on the parapet, while this boy is portrayed as he plays a game by himself. He is not posing but competing.