The Umbrellas (Renoir)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · c. 1881
The story
The Umbrellas is an oil-on-canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in two phases in the 1880s. It is owned by the National Gallery in London as part of the Lane Bequest but is displayed alternately in London and at the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. From May 2013 to 2019, it returned to Dublin for a six-year period. It is now in the National Gallery London.
Currently, the painting is on loan to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris for their Renoir retrospective Renoir et l'amour: La modernité heureuse (1865-1885) From March 17 to July 19, 2026
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Date
- c. 1881
- Collection
- National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 180.3 × 114.9 cm
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