A magnificent cherry tree in full white bloom presides over a lush Alpine meadow where buttercups glow yellow along a glassy mill stream, a sturdy Bavarian or Swiss chalet standing warm and red-shuttered in the middle distance — this is the European countryside at its most idealized, rendered in the luminous Photochromie process by Neurdein Frères of Paris. Card number 1589 — just seven numbers below the barn-and-blossom companion card (1596) in this batch — confirms these two were likely issued together as part of a spring landscape suite, probably depicting scenes from Bavaria, Switzerland, or the Austrian Tyrol. The vertical format (taller than wide) is slightly less common in the ND Photochromie series and lends the blossoming tree an almost monumental presence. The reverse is clean, unused, with the characteristic ND divided-back layout with dotted address lines and the familiar interlocked "ND" Photochromie mark.