[1] The picture portrays Monet's model, partner and future wife Camille Doncieux looking back from an island in the Seine towards the village of Gloton on the outskirts of Bennecourt, where they were temporarily staying with their young son, Jean.

[2] It was painted at a low point in Monet's life: after being thrown out of their Gloton rooms he threw himself in the river the following night (with no serious aftereffects) before returning home to Paris alone.

[3] It had been bought by Louis Aimé Léon Clapisson of Neuilly-sur-Seine for 500 francs.

He lent it to the Galerie Georges Petit for its exhibition Claude Monet; A. Rodin in 1889.

It descended through the Palmer family, who loaned it for a time before donating it to its present owner.