[1][2] This work is an idyll which represents four young women and three children, more or less naked, enjoying their time on a promontory overlooking the sea, where are visible several sailboats.

Presented at the Salon of 1882, the painter exchanged this work for a Portrait of Puvis de Chavannes.

It is also characterized by academic gravity and formality loaded with a certain timeless universality, that indicates a strong rejection of the transitory.

In this and all of Puvis de Chavannes paintings there is what has been called an “impulsive order”, undoubtedly due to his scientific training intermingled with his personality as a symbolist painter.

The transcendence of misery in the figure of the fisherman, represents for the artist another immortal theme, which can be found in his symbolist works.