Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, 16 × 20" Print
$40.00 at National Gallery of Art.
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Fine art print
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…