In Summer (Renoir)

In Summer (French: En été) is an 1868 oil-on-canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a portrait of Lise Tréhot aged about 20.

The female figure is carefully finished, but the background is sketched out roughly with bold dashes of colour in broad brushstrokes suggesting sunlit foliage.

A thin red hairband pulls her hair back from her face, with dark wavy tresses falling loosely over her shoulders and white bodice.

Her bare arms lie in her lap, resting on a skirt with red and white stripes, with a few green leaves held in her right hand.

It was exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1869 under the title En été, étude, with the word "étude" (French for "study") added to deflect criticism of the loose, impressionistic style of the background, which was not as highly finished as a completed salon painting (or tableau), such as his 1867 painting of Lise with a parasol.