A couple under a shared gray umbrella walks toward us on a wet Paris sidewalk, the man in a top hat, while another man at the far right is cut off by the edge. A tall green lamppost divides the picture. Behind, pedestrians with umbrellas cross a wide intersection of shining paving stones, a carriage with red wheels waits at the left, and pale stone apartment blocks fan out under an overcast sky. Gustave Caillebotte painted the scene in 1877 in the new neighborhoods around the Gare Saint-Lazare, a short walk from his home.

Critics recognized the spot as the crossing of the rue de Turin and the rue de Moscou, though his title kept it anonymous. Art Institute of Chicago research suggests he worked from on-site studies and likely a camera lucida drawing aid, and that he lengthened and straightened the lamppost and shifted the building at right as he worked. Shown at the third Impressionist exhibition in April 1877, it drew complaints that the rain was missing. The real crossing soon changed: in 1878 two traffic islands were added and the lamppost was replaced, and the spot was only named the place de Dublin in 1987.

The Art Institute acquired the painting in 1964. It is in the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago.