A Rainy Day in Paris
<p>P<strong>ierre-Auguste Renoir</strong> spent five years between 1881 and 1886 on his painting, <em>The Umbrellas</em>, yet it seems to capture a moment suspended in time. Rain is starting to fall and the bustling pedestrians pause to put up their umbrellas. The people are so close the shapes of the open umbrellas are held at awkward angles above them. At the centre one woman is in the process of opening her umbrella, while in the left foreground is a <em>grisette</em> — a colloquialism of the times meaning a young woman working in the garment industry as a cutter, seamstress, or in this case, a milliner's assistant — one assumes she’s delivering a hat in the bandbox, though she is hatless, gloveless, and without an umbrella.</p>
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