This still life depicts a ginger jar with fruit.

This still life depicts a table, napkin, and fruit.

Woman with a Parasol depicts Camille Monet and her son, Jean. It embodies the impressionist concept of the ‘glance’ — a snapshot in time; in this case, a stroll on a sunny day (source).

This work may be contrasted with the austere palette and rather duller tones of The Thames Below Westminster, painted some 30 years previously.

This painting depicts a happy scene in the Moulin de la Galette, a square in Montmartre, Paris, on a Sunday afternoon. Some commentators have observed that the girl in the striped dress (middle foreground) is Estelle, a sister of one of Renoir’s models. Other figures from the artist’s life are also evident in this painting: at the right-most table, for example, sit several of Renoir’s friends. One of them, Georges Rivière, described the Moulin de la Galette as ‘a page of history, a precious monument of Parisian life depicted with rigorous exactness.  Read more »