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This painting of around 1920 depicts the artist's garden, viewed from his house at Vernonnet in the Seine valley. The woman at lower right may be his wife Marthe. Influenced by his friend Claude Monet, who lived in nearby Giverny, he painted the house and garden repeatedly in different lights and atmospheres. Unlike the Impressionists, however, he worked from memory rather than directly from his subject in the open air. His works often show decorative and symbolist qualities. An earlier version of this view (Courtauld Institute Galleries, London), painted in around 1910, has a more sombre palette. In his later years Bonnard was fascinated by the relationship between interiors and gardens. Margaret Davies purchased this work in 1960.