the umbrellas auguste renoirPainted in two stages, between 1881 and 1885, Auguste Renoir's The Umbrellas offers a fascinating testimony to the painter's stylistic evolution. The right side, with the woman and the children, was painted around 1881 in the Impressionist manner characteristic of that period; the left side, added four years later after his trip to Italy, reflects his new, more linear and structured approach, known as the "harsh manner." The subject, a Parisian street