Four women in fashionable summer dresses gather flowers in a sunlit garden at Ville-d'Avray. Monet painted the huge canvas outdoors, lowering it into a trench to reach the top, and his companion Camille Doncieux posed for the figures. The Salon rejected it in 1867, and his friend Frédéric Bazille bought it to help him out.
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One biographer says the woman at right seems to glide along the path "as if she had a trolley concealed beneath her dress". Monet cared more about light than anatomy.
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