Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Lise with a Parasol
| Year of creation: | 1867 |
| Original size: | 184.0 cm x 115.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Realism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Lise with a Parasol is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1867. The original measures 184.0 x 115.0 cm, is recorded under inventory number G 144 and belongs to the collection of the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Our oil painting on canvas Lise with a Parasol is painted by hand, in eight sizes from 58 x 90 to 130 x 200 cm.
A young woman stands at the edge of a wood in a long white muslin dress with a wide black sash and a black ribbon at the throat. She holds a black lace parasol that throws her face and shoulders into shade while the sun falls full on her skirt. It is exactly this division — a shaded upper half, a sunlit lower one — that is the point of the work; the signature is visible at the lower right.
Our version is not a print. In this subject the difference is easy to see: the white dress is not one flat surface but a run of individual strokes of oil colour — cool in the shade, warm in the sun — laid side by side with a brush. The paint keeps the thickness of the load and the track of the bristles, which printed paper cannot imitate, so a hand-painted painting reads differently under changing light than a flat printed surface does.
The large upright format, with its nearly life-size figure, works well in an entrance hall, on a staircase, or in a room with a high ceiling, where the picture carries from a distance. For a smaller wall 70 x 110 cm is enough; for an open space we recommend 90 x 150 cm.
We paint to order, and in other sizes on request. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Every oil painting on canvas Lise with a Parasol arrives ready to hang, stretched on a wooden frame.
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