Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Woman with a Parasol in a Garden

Woman with a Parasol in a Garden – a meadow made of white, red and blue touches

Woman with a Parasol in a Garden is an oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, made in 1875. The original measures 54.5 x 65.0 cm, is catalogued as 724 (1974.43) and hangs in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Our art reproduction Woman with a Parasol in a Garden is painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight sizes from 70 x 60 to 150 x 130 cm.

There is no horizon and almost no drawing. The figures are built from the same touches as the flowers, and only their scale separates them from the meadow. That is the point of the picture: the eye finds them only once it has adjusted to the density of the colour, as it would in a real garden.

Flowers filling almost the whole canvas

A flowering meadow fills almost the whole canvas in dabs of white, red, blue and yellow over green. Higher up and a little left of centre a woman in dark clothes stands holding a pale parasol; a smaller figure in blue stands beside her, and a further pale parasol shows at the left edge. At the upper right a dark mass of shrubs closes the scene.

Why hand-painted, not a print

Our version is not a print. The flowers are single short brushstrokes set side by side rather than blended, and the green shows through between them in places. A hand-painted painting keeps that difference in the way the paint sits, which printed paper cannot imitate.

In the room

The subject is green and white and brings light into a room, so it repays hanging in a living room, a bedroom or a dining room, even on a wall that does not face the window. For a modest wall 80 x 70 cm is enough, for a larger one we advise 120 x 100 cm; on a broad wall 150 x 130 cm works, with 130 x 110 cm as the middle step. Under 70 x 60 cm the flecks of flowers merge into an even green and the meadow stops being in bloom.

What you receive

We paint the canvas to order, by hand and for you alone, so every copy is made on its own; the canvas is usually painted and dried within three to four weeks. If you prefer, we will paint it in a size that is not on the list. Before despatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval, and only then does the painting go out. Woman with a Parasol in a Garden arrives stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang, wrapped in protective film and in rigid packaging, with no further stretching or finishing needed.

• Subject: flowering meadow with a woman holding a parasol, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Technique: hand-painted oil painting on canvas, stretched on a wooden frame
• Sizes: 8 sizes, from 70 x 60 cm to 150 x 130 cm, another size on request
• Detail worth knowing: the meadow is built from separate white, red, blue and yellow touches on green – the flowers happen only in the eye

See also:

• Snow-covered Landscape
• The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes
• Luncheon of the Boating Party