page_title: Lise (Renoir)
section_title: Other work
hierarchical_section_title: Lise (Renoir) / Other work
context_page_description: Lise, also known as Lise with a Parasol, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created in 1867 during his early Salon period. The full-length painting depicts model Lise Tréhot posing in a forest. She wears a white muslin dress and holds a black lace parasol to shade her from the sunlight, which filters down through the leaves, contrasting her face in the shadow and her body in the light, highlighting her dress rather than her face. After having several paintings rejected by the Salon, Renoir's Lise was finally accepted and exhibited in May 1868.
  The painting was one of Renoir's first critically successful works. At this time, Renoir's technique was still influenced by Gustave Courbet, but he continued to develop his unique style painting filtered light which he would return to in The Swing and Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette. The almost life-size portrait and unusual contrast in Lise led several critics to ridicule the work. Théodore Duret, a passionate supporter of the nascent Impressionists, bought the painting from Renoir, who was unable to sell it.
context_section_description: A sister painting, Portrait de Lise (Lise tenant un bouquet de fleurs des champs) (1867), was completed around the same time as the larger Lise.  In both works, she appears in the forest wearing a similar dress and the same earrings, but in Portrait de Lise she wears a blue sash.  A later painting, Femme à l'ombrelle assise dans le jardin (1872), features Lise seated, modeling a similar dress with a red sash, hat, and parasol.
  Lise was the first of Renoir's paintings to feature a human figure with light filtering through plant leaves from above.  Similar works that make use of this style include The Swing (1876) and Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876).  House notes the thematic and narrative similarity between Lise and La Promenade (1870), with expectations of the waiting woman in Lise fulfilled in La Promenade with the private, romantic rendezvous between lovers in the forest, a popular nineteenth century theme.
caption: Femme à l'ombrelle assise dans le jardin (1872)
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