Depicting a scene in a room, the painting draws the viewer's focus to the natural landscape outside of the window, away from the figures in the bottom right.

The work is housed in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C..[1] The contrast between the exterior blues and greens and the interior red oranges keeps the viewer's focus away from the black cat and woman at the lower right corner of the canvas.

This suggested human presence, like some figure in a dream, became a feature of these inside-outside views that Bonnard painted in the 1930s.

[2] The human figure is believed to be Bonnard's wife Marthe de Meligny but may also be Renee Monchaty, with whom he fell in love around 1917 and who killed herself in 1923.

Bonnard's studies of the domestic interior and its psychological charge, a reflection upon his private life, is evident in his work.