In 1903, Renoir, already suffering from ill-health, decided to stay on in the South of France. After staying briefly in Magagnosc and le Cannet he settled in 1907 in Cagnes where he bought Les Collettes, an old farm situated in an olive-grove, and in 1908 moved into the house he built there. "It seems that the different places Renoir lived in ever since his childhood, coincided with the evolution of his genius." Jean Renoir writes, "Les Collettes was the perfect setting for his final period." (Renoir, my Father, London, 1962, p. 386.)
Anne Bistel in the catalogue of the major Renoir exhibition held in London, Paris and Boston in 1985 writes of Renoir's late landscape work, "Renoir's late landscapes, like his still-lifes, are mostly quite small, treated freely and informally, and quite different from the few ambitious canvases that he finished during the same years. Many of the landscapes like many of the still-lifes and figure studies are no more than quick notations of a simple feature."

François Daulte has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work. To be included in the forthcoming volume IV of the Renoir catalogue raisonné he is currently preparing.