RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
(b, 1841, Limoges, d. 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Woman with a Parasol in a Garden

1873
Oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

This painting dates from a period when Renoir, together with Monet, was formulating a new pictorial language which would come to be seen as typically Impressionist. Renoir here depicts a garden from a high viewpoint, which allows him to paint a broad foreground filled with wild flowers, creating a vaporous surface with softened outlines.