The group comprises the painter Alfred Stevens, artists' models Victorine Meurent and Alice Lecouvé and, in the background, Manet's friend Paul Roudier.

[3] It is now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which calls it The Croquet Party.

[4] The Impressionists, including Édouard Manet, dealt intensively with plein air painting.

Édouard Manet only took up the special challenge of this painting from 1870, after his artist colleague Berthe Morisot had suggested it.

Compared to other impressionist plein air paintings, the picture appears static due to its well thought-out depth gradation.