Loppé was in his mid-seventies when he painted this atmospheric study of the beach at Dieppe and had been crossing the English Channel frequently since the early 1860s. Depending on his exhibition commitments, he sometimes made up to half a dozen trips a year to London and further afield. Often, he took the ferry between Dieppe and Newhaven and his diaries state that, weather permitting, he tried to paint most days even when travelling. The Casino Mauresque was completed in 1886 and would have appealed to Loppé, whose fascination with bridges and steel structures had led him to apply for a special permit to photograph the pavillons and the Tour Eiffel under construction at the Exposition Universelle a decade before.