Mrs Monet's veil is blown by the wind, as is her billowing white dress; the waving grass of the meadow is echoed by the green underside of her parasol.

A boy, Monet's seven-year-old son Jean, is placed further away, concealed behind a rise in the ground and visible only from the waist up, creating a sense of depth, the moment using animated brush strokes full of vibrant color.

The work was painted outdoors, en plein air, and quickly, probably in a single period of a few hours.

"[5] Mary Tompkins Lewis, in Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: An Anthology, said it was "his largest and most imposing" painting of the decade, as well as "haunting, deeply introspective.

It was inherited by de Bellio's daughter Victorine and her husband Ernest Donop de Monchy, acquired by Georges Menier in Paris, and sold in 1965 to Paul Mellon and his wife Bunny Mellon.