The painting depicts three women wearing the then fashionable style of ruffled dresses with high bodices.

Art historians refer to the painting as one of the most impressionistic works Bracquemond produced during this period.

French art critic Gustave Geffroy was so taken with the work that he purchased it from Bracquemond and hung it in the Luxembourg Palace.

[3] The work was received by the Musée du Luxembourg through the bequest of Geffroy in 1926, where it appeared for the next ten years.

In 1936, it was moved to Chemillé City Hall where it stayed until 2013 when it was acquired by the Musée d’Orsay.