Description
A woman in a flowing white dress reclines in tall grass, holding a pink parasol tilted back over her dark hair. Her pose is relaxed and informal, one hand resting near the ground, while behind her a small child in a white smock toddles away into a sunlit patch of the meadow, half-turned so that only the back of its head and outstretched arm are visible.
Renoir bathes the whole scene in warm golden light, letting the grass shift from bright yellow-green in the sun to deep shadowed green at the edges of the canvas. The woman’s white dress is built from broad, confident strokes of grey, cream, and touches of pale blue, and the pink of the parasol is the single warm note that draws the eye straight to her face.
Held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this intimate outdoor scene, painted in 1874, is available as a wall art reproduction. Woman with a Parasol and Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside can be printed on museum-quality canvas in a range of sizes, made to order and shipped worldwide.
