Woman with a Parasol (Monet)
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| Woman with umbrella |
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| Claude Monet , 1886 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 131 × 88 cm |
| Musée d'Orsay |
Woman with a parasol (original: Femme à l'ombrelle ) is the title of a painting by Claude Monet from 1886. The work, the motif of which the painter realized in two versions, is considered an impetus for a new phase of Monet's work in the style of Impressionism . The painting belongs to the holdings of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .
description
A young lady in a white jacket dress pauses for a walk on a sunny summer day in a meadow, facing the viewer from a slightly lower angle. She shows herself from her left side and facing away from the sun, which lights up her white skirt from behind. Dress and veil billow in the wind that is behind her. A parasol protects you from the sunlight, the meadow is shaded by its shape. The face and right arm are also in shadow and are only vaguely recorded; the delicate blue veil that seems to loosen from the head in the wind makes the facial features unrecognizable. The background is formed by clouds that give the impression of rapid movement against a summery blue sky.
The painting shows a reduced palette of the basic colors blue, red and yellow, together with their mixtures of green, violet and orange, as well as white; it is created in quick brushstrokes alla prima . The meadow is executed in color commas , which only mix into colors in the eye of the beholder. The shadows, including those of the white dress, are colored without the use of black. In addition to the predominant color white, the complementary colors red and green are emphasized, both in the color commas of the meadow and in the green-shaded side of the parasol and the red flower at the waist.
classification
In the same year, 1886, Monet also painted another version of the Lady with the Parasol in the same format. It shows the same young woman in a white dress from the same perspective, slightly from below, but coming from the other side, so she shows herself from the right. The sun and wind have kept their direction, so that the parasol, which the lady is holding in her right hand, now shadows her from the front; the skirt blows back and the veil over her back, on which the now recognizable long plait moves. The red at her waist and the green shade of the umbrella contrast here, too, the meadow is also conceived in adjacent brushstrokes. The face, in this version also in the shadow, again shows no individual features.
As early as 1875, the motif of a woman with a parasol, veil and waving skirt was the subject of a painting by Monet. The work, based on a painting in the open air , also called The Walk or The Promenade , shows Monet's wife Camille and her “sheltered” son Jean on a hill with a slight soffit. The cloudy sky contrasts with the grass-covered hill on which the figures cast dark, colored shadows. At the first exhibition of the painting in 1876, it was certified as spontaneous and natural.
In 1882 Claude Monet captured travel motifs in pictures at different times of the day. After moving to Giverny in 1883, he devoted himself again to depicting people in the open air and depicting the impression of a moment with the appearances of light. During this time his plan arose to depict the same motif at different times of the day and year and in their different lighting conditions, for example in his haystack (1890) and in the series of pictures of Rouen Cathedral from 1892/93. The Faceless Lady with the Parasol, depicted in 1886 at the same moment and in the same light, but from different directions, is considered to be the first expression of this project.
Provenance
Both paintings from 1886 show Monet's stepdaughter Suzanne Hoschedé; they remained in the family's possession and were exhibited in the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris in 1891 . In 1927, one year after the painter's death, they were acquired by the Louvre through their second son Michel and have been in the Musée d'Orsay's holdings since 1986.
literature
- Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication: Musée d'Orsay . Editions de la Réunion dees museées nationeaux, Paris 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Gallery of Art , Washington: Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875 (accessed September 28, 2017)
- ↑ Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication: Musée d'Orsay (1987), p. 136
- ↑ Data from the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication [1] , [2]
