The painting is marked by the sand-laced pigment and curvilinear forms of Braque's later work and presents a seated female artist with palette and brush in hand. Set in the artist's own Varengeville studio on the Normandy coast, it is one of about ten paintings that depicts figures engaging in artistic or musical activities.

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): G. Braque [underlined]/ 36

[Paul Rosenberg, Paris, London and New York, 1936–49; stock no. 3712, purchased from the artist in 1936, for $3,000; sold on June 3, 1949, for $16,000, to Marx]; Samuel and Florene Marx, Chicago (1949–his d. 1964); Florene May Marx, later Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, New York (1964–d. 1995; her bequest to MMA)

Brussels. Palais des Beaux Arts. 1937.

Paris. Paul Rosenberg. "Exposition d'œuvres récentes de Georges Braque," April 3–30, 1937, no. 15 (as "Dans l'atelier").

Arts Club of Chicago. "Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition," November 7–27, 1939, no. 57 (as "Femme au chevalet," lent by Rosenberg & Helft, Ltd., London).

Washington. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition," December 6, 1939–January 6, 1940, no. 39 (as "Femme au chevalet," lent by Rosenberg & Helft, Ltd., London).

San Francisco Museum of Art. "Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition," February 6–March 3, 1940, no catalogue.

New York. Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," November 1, 1965–January 2, 1966, unnumbered cat. (p. 34; as "Woman at an Easel").

Art Institute of Chicago. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," February 11–March 27, 1966, unnumbered cat.

City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," April 26–June 13, 1966, unnumbered cat.

Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," July 2–August 7, 1966, unnumbered cat.

San Francisco Museum of Art. "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," September 2–October 2, 1966, unnumbered cat.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Florene M. Schoenborn Bequest: 12 Artists of the School of Paris," February 11–August 31, 1997, brochure no. 3.

Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," June 6–July 19, 1998, no. 45 (as "Femme au chevalet [Paravent jaune]").

Kagoshima City Museum of Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," July 24–August 30, 1998, no. 45.

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," September 12–October 25, 1998, no. 45.

Mie Prefectural Art Museum. "Georges Braque Retrospective," November 3–December 13, 1998, no. 45.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895 1950," March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 106).

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," September 14–November 24, 2002, no. 62.

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003, no. 62.

New York. Acquavella Galleries. "Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism," October 12–November 30, 2011, no. 34.

Stanislas Fumet. Braque. Paris, [1948], fig. 36.

Maurice Gieure. G. Braque. Paris, 1956, pp. 82,101, pl. 93.

John Russell and René Ben Sussan. G. Braque. London, 1959, p. 125, under no. 53.

Nicole S. Mangin. Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque. Vol. 3, Peintures 1936–1941. [Paris], 1961, p. 1, ill.

Lucy R. Lippard in The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 1965, pp. 34–35, ill. (color).

Raymond Cogniat. Georges Braque. New York, 1980, p. 132, fig. 62.

Nadine Pouillon with Isabelle Monod Fontaine. Braque:Œuvres de Georges Braque (1882–1963). Exh. cat., Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1982, p. 100, under no. 24, fig. 5.

Karen Wilkin. Georges Braque. New York, 1991, p. 79, fig. 58 (color).

Jean Leymarie. Braque: Les ateliers. Aix en Provence, 1995, pp. 72, 97–98, colorpl. 27.

Grace Glueck. "A Surprise, and Then a Collection." New York Times (February 28, 1997), p. C31.

William S. Lieberman. "Donnés au Met." Connaissance des arts, no. 539 (May 1997), p. 71, ill. (color).

William S. Lieberman in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1996–1997." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 55 (Fall 1997), pp. 78–79, ill. (color).

Christian Briend in "Catalogue." De Manet à Bacon: La collection Jacqueline Delubac. Lyon, 1998, p. 62.

Sophie Bowness. "Braque's Etchings for Hesiod's 'Theogony' and Archaic Greece Revived." Burlington Magazine 142 (April 2000), p. 214.

William S. Lieberman in Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 2002, pp. 120, 126–27, 166, no. 62, ill. (color).

Roberta Smith. "Artists Caught in the Act." New York Times (January 5, 2007), p. E44, ill.

Dieter Buchhart in Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 2011, p. 65.

Richard Shiff in Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 2011, pp. 41, 146, 150, colorpl. 34.