Where to See Lise with Umbrella: Folkwang Museum, Essen

Pierre-Auguste Renoir rendered this Lise with a Parasol in 1867, depicting his model and companion Lise Tréhot in a forest. She wears a white muslin dress and holds a black lace parasol, her face shaded while sunlight illuminates her body through the leaves.

Renoir began the work in the Chantilly Forest when he was twenty-six. After previous Salon rejections, this painting was accepted and exhibited in May 1868, establishing his early reputation. The full-length canvas measures 184 by 115 centimeters and shows influence from Gustave Courbet. Now at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.

This painting hangs at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. German collector Karl Ernst Osthaus acquired it in 1901, recognizing the importance of this early Impressionist work.

Lise Tréhot was Renoir's model and companion from about 1865 to 1872. Renoir met her through his friend Jules Le Coeur, whose family knew Lise's sister.

Accepted at the 1868 Salon after previous rejections, it was Renoir's first critically successful work. Critics noted its debt to Courbet while recognizing emerging Impressionist tendencies in its plein-air approach.

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