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a painting of a woman with flowers in her hair sitting on a bench next to a tree

Henri-Jean Guillaume Henri Martin (1860-1943) was a French Painter. Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1917, he is known for his early 1920s work on the walls of the Salle de l'Assemblée Générale, where the members of the Conseil d'État meet in the Palais-Royal in Paris.

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a painting of two people in a field with flowers

In Woman with a Parasol in a Garden Renoir’s language is wholly impressionistic: in a setting lacking a visible horizon, the flowers and shrubs are created with tiny dabs of colour, providing a constant interweaving of textures around the two small figures. The woman, whose parasol shades her from the sun, stands close to the man as he leans down, perhaps to pick a flower, hinting at an intimate relationship. Contrary to what one may think, this canvas was not painted in the countryside but…

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