woman with a parasol in a garden auguste renoirPainted in 1875, this work belongs to the heart of Auguste Renoir's most radically Impressionist period. It was created in the garden of the house the artist was then renting on rue Cortot, in Montmartre a place that served as an experimental ground for several of his open air scenes. This practice of painting en plein air, shared with Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, constituted at the time the movement's pictorial manifesto: to capture the