Romance beneath the brollies: Renoir’s Paris comes to the National Gallery

The man who painted Sunday afternoons is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Gallery, exploring twenty years when Pierre-Auguste Renoir captured the pleasures of Parisian life — and the flirtations beneath its respectable surface.At a time when most artists and writers focused on the dire state that Paris and France found themselves in, Renoir turned his back on the gloomy Monday to Saturday and focused on the day off instead. Only the richer folk though, as poor people didn&rs