莫奈于1867年夏天在靠近勒阿弗尔（法国）的英吉利海峡度假小镇Sainte-Adresse度过。[1]在那里，在一个可以看到地平线上的翁弗勒尔的花园里，他画了这幅画，它结合了光滑，传统渲染的区域，闪闪发光的快速，独立的笔触和纯色斑点。
模特们可能是莫奈的父亲，阿道夫，在前景中，莫奈的表弟珍妮玛格丽特莱卡德尔在围栏; Adolphe Lecadre，她的父亲; 或许是Lecadre的另一个女儿，Sophie，这位女士背对着观众坐着。
虽然这个场景预示着富裕的家庭生活，但它绝不是一幅全家福。由于家庭不赞成这位年轻艺术家与他的同伴Camille Doncieux（他的妻子）的联络，莫奈与父亲的关系在那个夏天很紧张。
Monet spent the summer of 1867 at the resort town of Sainte-Adresse on the English Channel, near Le Havre (France). It was there, in a garden with a view of Honfleur on the horizon, that he painted this picture, which combines smooth, traditionally rendered areas with sparkling passages of rapid, separate brushwork, and spots of pure colour.
The models were probably Monet's father, Adolphe, in the foreground, Monet's cousin Jeanne Marguerite Lecadre at the fence; Adolphe Lecadre, her father; and perhaps Lecadre's other daughter, Sophie, the woman seated with her back to the viewer.
Although the scene projects affluent domesticity, it is by no means a family portrait. Monet's relations with his father were tense that summer, owing to family disapproval of the young artist's liaison with his companion, Camille Doncieux, his wife to be.
