Savoyard occupies a central position in the artist's works of 1715-1716 and is devoted to the common people. The artist depicted an itinerant musician from the mountains of Savoy, probably basing the painting on drawings made from life. Two such drawings have survived: one of a Savoyard and the other a sketch of a landscape.

The contrast between the interpretation of the boy's figure, depicted in warm brown tones using broad. rich brushstrokes, and the sketchily-executed landscape in its cool, light tones, creates an impression of human solitude in a world which recalls a theatrical backdrop