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Dimensions: | 115 x 180 cm | |
Type: | Oil on canvas | |
Location: | The National Gallery, London, UK | |
Shop: | Buy oil on canvas handmade reproduction |
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Les Parapluies/Umbrellas
The right hand side of the picture is painted softly in Renoirs familiar style. Then, after a gap of many months in which he absorbed new influences of form and structure(Cezanne for example) he painted the girl on the left. High definition! I was amazed when I first learned this in an Art History lecture.
Renoir - Les Parapluies
When I was a child (over forty years ago), this painting used to hang in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, and my mother used to take me to see it.
She told me that the main figure was a milliner’s assistant, carrying a milliner’s basket, who was probably out on an errand delivering a hat to a wealthy customer. The basket is closed with a black lacquered lid, to protect the hat, and the girl’s hand is reflected in the shiny black of its lacquered cover.
While all the other figures in the painting wear hats, the assistant, a mere shop-girl, wears none, nor does she carry an umbrella to protect her from the rain. Her dress is drab and unadorned in dramatic contrast with the elegant finery of the other figures, who all clearly come from a much higher social strata.
Yet she is the beauty and the main focus of the painting. She has just caught the attention of the man immediately behind her, who may be Renoir himself, the likeness is not dissimilar, and looks away modestly from his gaze.
In the painting, Renoir captures the moment, by putting us, the viewer, right in the middle of the scene, focusing our attention on the girl with the downward sweep of the opened and half opened umbrellas.
This account has always framed my understanding of the picture and made it live for me as one of my favourite paintings.
Patricia McGoldrick
natural
not for analysis. just a miracle. loving it twenty years now and forever.
its ok but its not very undetailed
nothing
i have to study this
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Renoir has beautiful paintings, and this is one of them.
the poeple would be sourpride with this paint.
It turned out to be the lost one during a estate sale , The one with the stained frame.