During the 1920s Derain moved away from Cézanne and Cubism and practiced several styles simultaneously, adapting his technique to the subject at hand. Many paintings display the clarity and formal simplicity of classicism. At the same time he could work in a freer, more expressive manner. The present painting is almost Impressionist in its lightness and delicacy and displays the influence of Renoir, whom Derain admired for his classical sense of volume and form as well as his painterly freedom.