Manguin was a student at Gustave Moreau's atelier with Charles Camoin, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse and Jean Puy, artists whose careers and achievements remained closely intertwined through the Fauve years. These artists usually spent their summers away from Paris on the Mediterranean coast. Manguin prefered the area around Saint- Tropez, where he maintained a close friendship with Paul Signac. The model in this view is the artist's wife Jeanne, whom he met in 1896 and married three years later. This painting is one of two versions which remained in the artist's collection until his death; the second smaller version (L. and C. Manguin, op.cit., no. 211; coll. Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany) was included in the 1990-1991 exhibition The Fauve Landscape, which was seen in Los Angeles, New York and London.