Valadon's son, the painter Maurice Utrillo, and her lover and model for this painting, André Utter, also exhibited there.

This study of movement is reminiscent of the painting Dance (1910) by Henri Matisse (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).

The pink mountain and the blue lake were inspired by the artist's stay in Corsica and are also reminiscent of Paul Cézanne's tones.

The artist uses outline, clearly delineating the silhouette of the model in space, a technique previously used, among others, by Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The canvas was acquired by the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1937, and in 1998 it was transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy, for safekeeping.