'The laundry' was created in 1875 by French Realist/Impressionist painter Édouard Manet (1832-1883).
It is part of the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
A woman washes linen in a flower-filled garden.
A child to her right, as if eager to help, tugs at the pail of suds.
Washerwomen were popular figures in 19th-century art and literature.
Manet's good friend Émile Zola, for example, described their tough lives in his novels.
But this depiction is idyllic.
Édouard Manet | Laundry (Le Linge), 1875 | Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia