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This painting places us in a busy Parisian street close to six principal figures who fill the foreground. A milling crowd behind them almost completely blocks out the boulevard beyond. The top quarter of the picture is mostly filled by a canopy of at least a dozen umbrellas. Painted in two stages, with a gap of around four years between each stage, it shows the change in Renoir’s art during the 1880s, when he was beginning to move away from Impressionism and looking instead to classical art. The group on the right, which includes a mother and her two daughters and the woman in profile in the centre, is painted in a characteristically Impressionist manner with delicate feathery touches of rich luminous tones. On the left of the composition, completed during the second stage, Renoir adopted a more linear style.
Title
The Umbrellas
Date
about 1881-6
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 180.3 x W 114.9 cm
Accession number
NG3268
Acquisition method
Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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