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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Umbrellas  wikidata:Q1114571 reasonator:Q1114571
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir  (1841–1919)  wikidata:Q39931 s:en:Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir q:en:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Alternative names
Auguste Renoir
Description French painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, drawer and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 25 February 1841 Edit this at Wikidata / 17 December 1919 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Limoges Edit this at Wikidata Cagnes-sur-Mer
Work period 1854 Edit this at Wikidata–1919 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q39931
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Title
The Umbrellas
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Renoir's 'Umbrellas' shows a bustling Paris street in the rain. The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands. It even cuts off figures at either edge like a photographic snapshot. This kind of unconventional arrangement was something that several of the Impressionists, including Renoir and Degas, enjoyed experimenting with.

The work is particularly intriguing in that it shows the artist at two separate points in his career, the second of which was a moment of crisis as he fundamentally reconsidered his painting style.

When he began 'The Umbrellas' in 1880-1, Renoir was still using the typically loose brushwork and bright, pure colours of the Impressionist movement - the sort of technique he employed in 'The Skiff (La Yole)'. During the early 1880s, he became increasingly disillusioned with the Impressionist technique.

He began to look back to more traditional art: the drawings of Ingres and the 'purity and grandeur' of classical art. Returning to 'The Umbrellas', he repainted the figure on the left in a crisper style, using a more muted palette. The rapid changes in women's fashions allow us to date the second stage of the painting to 1885-6.
Date circa 1881
date QS:P571,+1881-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-86
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 180.3 x 114.9 cm
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Accession number
NG3268
Credit line Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917
Inscriptions Signed
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