Bonnard began his career as a member of the Nabis (Hebrew “Prophets”), a group organized under the influence of Gauguin and Symbolism. From 1900 on, however, he sought his subjects in everyday life, developing his own pictorial terrain in which to explore color effects. The setting for this painting is Ma Roulotte (“My Caravan”), Bonnard’s name for what was his own home at the time, near Vernon on the banks of the Seine. The green vegetation is placed to frame the square picture plane. Organized with great care in colors in varying degrees of brightness, this painting is brimming with life and tension.