Claude Monet – Woman with a Parasol

Woman with a Parasol is a hand-painted oil reproduction of a Monet motif: a woman with a green parasol stands on a grassy rise beneath a restless sky, with a child in a straw hat showing above the grass below and to the left.

Woman with a Parasol – Claude Monet

What is on the canvas

The canvas stands upright. The woman is on a grassy rise and is painted from below, so that
almost nothing but sky opens behind her — the horizon sits low and is barely there. In her
raised right hand she holds a green parasol tilted back; her face stays in its shadow while her
head is turned towards the viewer. She wears a pale yellow bodice with a dark ribbon at the
throat and a long white-lilac skirt that opens towards the ground in a wide triangle. A veil
lifts behind her head and the wind carries it the same way it carries the clouds. Below and to
the left, hidden to the chest in tall grass, stands a smaller figure in a straw hat with a dark
band; it faces us directly but is painted more softly and without features. The foreground is a
dense green, flecked with yellow and violet.

Wind, light and brushwork

The sky takes the larger part of the surface and is not smooth: white and grey clouds are laid
in short diagonal strokes running the same way as the veil and the grass in front. It is that
shared direction that makes the scene windy, before any single detail is noticed. The paint is
laid on thickly and stays visible as a stroke; on our version you can clearly see the material
standing above the weave and catching light at different angles, which is what a museum-quality reproduction is meant to preserve. The green plane of the parasol
is the darkest and coolest part of the scene and works as an anchor for everything moving around
it. This oil on canvas reproduction therefore reads differently in morning and evening light.

The motif in Monet’s work — and what is not established about this original

A figure outdoors, set low beneath a large sky, recurs in Monet more than once. The closest
relative of this scene is Woman with a Parasol (Facing Left),
where the same arrangement appears mirrored. A group version of the garden motif is offered by
Women in the Garden, while
in Poppy Field (Giverny)
and Corner of the Garden at Montgeron
the planting takes the figure over almost entirely.

What we deliberately do not state here: Monet painted this motif in more than
one version, so which of them is the original behind this particular reproduction is not
established. You will therefore find no year of execution, no collection name and no accession
number on this page. We say what is visible on the canvas and nothing beyond it.

How it behaves on a wall

The upright 4 : 5 format grows in height and does not ask for a wide wall. Because the horizon
is low, the scene reads better hung a little high — the upward look is already built into the
composition. 40 x 50 cm and 50 x 60 cm suit a hallway, a narrow stretch between doors, or a
place in a group hang. 60 x 80 cm and 70 x 90 cm are the usual choice above a chest of drawers or
a desk. 80 x 100 cm is the most balanced answer above a sofa. 90 x 120 cm, 120 x 160 cm and
150 x 200 cm are for tall walls, stairwells and rooms with open roof timbers, where the pale
lilac and the green get room to breathe. As wall decor it repays a position where light arrives
from the side.

Hand-painted, not a print — and why you can see it

This hand-painted canvas art is made with a brush rather than a printer, and the difference is not only in the
word. A print lays colour in an evenly thin film, so the surface is equally matt or equally
glossy everywhere. Oil goes on at different thicknesses: in the clouds and the skirt the
material stands higher, in the grass it is smoother. Shadow therefore falls inside the stroke
itself and the reflection changes as you move through the room — an effect a canvas print cannot
imitate, because there is nothing on it to cast a shadow. Because this is handwork, each copy
differs slightly from the last; that is not a fault but a consequence of the method. Among
reproductions on canvas this remains a single object rather than a copy of one.

Custom sizes, the frame, and seeing it on your own wall

If none of the eight sizes fits your space, we paint to the size you set, keeping the ratio of
the sides so the standing figure is not squeezed. A 3D application is available for choosing a
frame — it is for frame selection only and does not place the work in your room.
If you want to see how it will look on your own wall, that is a separate visualisation service
which we carry out on its own. The two do not overlap, and we do not merge them.

Ordering, lead time and approval before dispatch

Because the work is painted to order, the lead time is 15 to 45 days,
depending on the size chosen and how full the studio is. Before anything is dispatched we send
you a photograph of the finished piece for approval; only once you confirm do we stretch the
canvas on a wooden frame and prepare it for hanging. The full range is in the
Claude Monet gallery, alongside other famous paintings on canvas and further fine art reproduction work from the same hand.

• Subject: woman with a green parasol on a grassy rise, low horizon, child in a straw hat below left.
• Technique: oil in visible strokes of varying thickness; clouds and grass run the same way.
• Sizes: upright 4 : 5 format, eight sizes from 40 x 50 cm to 150 x 200 cm, custom sizes on request.
• Worth knowing: the green parasol is the only sizeable cool, dark plane — without it the scene would split into sky and grass.