Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Woman with a Parasol in a Garden
| Year of creation: | 1875 |
| Original size: | 54.5 cm x 65.0 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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.
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.
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.
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.
The green-and-white subject is easy to live with in a living room, a bedroom or a dining room, where it is meant to bring light. For a smaller wall 80 x 70 cm is enough; above a larger piece of furniture we recommend 120 x 100 cm. We paint to order, in a different size on request. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished canvas for your approval. Your art reproduction Woman with a Parasol in a Garden arrives ready to hang, with the canvas stretched on a wooden frame.
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