Showing palm trees and a church tower in the background, the work was produced during a stay in Bordighera on the Ligurian coast of Italy from January to April 1884. He wrote to his art critic friend Théodore Duret "I set up in a fairyland. It would take a palette of diamonds and precious stones".[5]
^(in Russian) Albert Kostenevitch, Catalogue de l'exposition de la peinture française des XIXe et XXe siècles [à l'Ermitage] issue des collections privées d'Allemagne, ministère de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie, musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1995,German translation by Kindler, Munich, 1995