This drawing may have been completed at Saint-Idesbald or at least seems to have been inspired by this location. Saint-Idesbald is a Belgian coastal village close to the French border. After a number of visits during the 1940s, Delvaux acquired a studio there. The definition of shapes with short dashes is a typical of Delvaux’s ink and wash drawings of this period. The heavy-limbed, pensive woman in the foreground is a familiar physical type in Delvaux’s work and may reflect the influence on him of the monumental neoclassical figures that Picasso and de Chirico painted in the 1920s.