The painting of this Catalan artist, mainly focused on landscapes and seascapes, was connected to Naturalism, a movement dominated by a faithful depiction of reality.

Baixeras employed a delicate and meticulous language, using light and colour to masterfully capture the essence of nature, truthful and at once imbued with a melancholic tone.

Although he has been largely considered a landscape painter, he also created figurative compositions. In his portraits, he tried to capture the essence of the individual. In this oil painting, the artist represents his wife, Maria del Pilar Casanovas Fortuny, standing like a grand lady in the framework of a landscape nuanced by the evening light. Here nature is merely the backdrop for a composition dominated by the human figure. The woman is dressed soberly, in consonance with the dictates of late nineteenth-century fashion, with a jacket and a skirt, enlivened only with the warm colours of her hat. She is shown in a placid posture, slightly turned in three-quarters with her left leg forward. Her arms rest on her skirt, while she holds in her hands a closed parasol, an indispensable element to protect her skin from the sun. Her bearing and her gaze, staring out at the viewer, express a sense of complicity between the model and the painter, who has succeeded in capturing her mysterious personality with great lyricism.