Woman with a Parasol in a Garden

It was unclear until only recently where and when Auguste Renoir had painted Woman with a Parasol in a Garden. Some authors hold that it was executed during summer 1873, when the painter was working with Monet at Giverny; others believe it was painted at the country house of his friend Charles Le Coeur in Fontenay-aux-Roses, in summer 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition. Colin Bai…