This view was painted from an apartment at Le Cannet in the South of France, where Bonnard and his wife, Marthe - who can be seen on the balcony – stayed before buying Villa du Bosquet. On the table is the novel Marie by Peter Nansen, for which Bonnard drew the illustrations (1898). It was purchased from the artist by the dealer Bernheim-Jeune in Paris on 16 February 1927 and subsequently bought by Lord Ivor Charles Spencer-Churchill (1898-1956) from his friend Percy Moore Turner (1877-1950) of the Independent Gallery, London. He gifted it to the Contemporary Art Society in 1931 - along with The Bath (Baignoire, Le Bain), also by Bonnard - who presented it to the Tate in the same year. Spencer-Churchill was a Committee Member (1927-49) of the Contemporary Art Society (1927-49) and its Hon. Secretary (1926-38) donating 21 pictures, and buying 14 artworks, as a CAS elected buyer, to donate to UK public museums.