Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Woman with a Parasol (1875) for your own gallery in this oversize, 16 x 20" print, printed on a white background.
Contrary to the artificial conventions of academic portraiture, Claude Monet delineated the features of his sitters as freely as their surroundings. The spontaneity and naturalness of the resulting image were praised when it appeared in the second impressionist exhibition in 1876. Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours' duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses. The brevity of the moment portrayed here is conveyed by a repertory of animated brushstrokes of vibrant color, hallmarks of the style Monet was instrumental in forming.
Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Woman with a Parasol (1875) for your own gallery in this oversize, 16 x 20" print, printed on a white background.
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| Description | Contrary to the artificial conventions of academic portraiture, Claude Monet delineated the features of his sitters as freely as their surroundings. The spontaneity and naturalness of the resulting image were praised when it appeared in the second impressionist exhibition in 1876. Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours' duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses. The brevity of the moment portrayed here is conveyed by a repertory of animated brushstrokes of vibrant color, hallmarks of the style Monet was instrumental in forming. Part of the National Gallery of Art's permanent collection, you can take home a reproduction of Woman with a Parasol (1875) for your own gallery in this oversize, 16 x 20" print, printed on a white background.
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