It is held at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. Morisot traveled to Brittany several times in the years preceding the creation of this work.

Since the arrival of the railway, the region welcomed painters to Pont-Aven, mainly during summer, and Morisot went there, as well as the nearby towns Douarnenez and Quimperlé in 1866 and 1867.

[2] The rectangular canvas depicts Morisot's sister seated on a parapet, under a parasol, bordering the outer port of Lorient.

The integration of a female figure (like her other relatives, her sister, her niece, or her daughter Julie on other canvases) with a vaporous and silvery landscape as a background, and highlighting their freshness, is a usual theme of Morrisot, which is found in this painting.

It subsequently changed hands, and was reported as belonging to financier Gabriel Thomas, a cousin of Berthe Morisot, in 1896 .