Best known for her images of women and children in interior settings, Pennsylvania-born artist Mary Cassatt spent much of her life working in Paris. In 1894, Cassatt purchased a country home roughly 50 miles northwest of Paris. Her growing interest in nature and the environment led her to begin depicting women and children in outdoor settings, as in this print. An abandoned mill building on the property became her printmaking studio, where she experimented with a variety of printmaking techniques, often reworking her printing plates and exploring innovative ways to print in color. The inscription below the image is a personal dedication from Cassatt to her friend George A. Lucas, who collected many of her prints.