This sunny picture was painted in Munich (at the same time as "Swing") but it has none of the spirit of the Academy there. Szinyei recalled a scene he had seen at home: laundresses were hanging out clothes to dry and the young master was watching them while they were working. (The picture was also exhibited under the title "Young Master").
As in his picture sketch "The Swing", Szinyei was primarily concerned with translating light into colour. He disregarded the academic rules and painted his visual experience in carefree composition. He grasped the essence of Impressionism, although he had no knowledge of the similar endeavours by French artists, had never been to Paris, and had only seen the realist paintings of Gustave Courbet and some very early works by Edouard Manet at the International Exhibition at Munich (Claude Monet painted his firs Impressionist painting in Grenoble in the same year.)