A Paris street fills with umbrellas as rain begins or ends. At left, a milliner's assistant with no umbrella lifts her skirt and carries a hatbox; at right, a mother bends towards her daughters. Renoir painted it in two campaigns: the right side in 1881 with feathery Impressionist strokes, the left around 1885 in a harder, more classical style.
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X-rays show that the woman at left, modelled by Suzanne Valadon, first wore a hat and a frilled dress. Renoir repainted her in plainer working clothes.
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