Boating
1874 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (97.2 x 130.2 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Manet summered at Gennevilliers in 1874, often spending time with Monet and Renoir across the Seine at Argenteuil, where Boating was painted. Beyond adopting the lighter touch and palette of his younger Impressionist colleagues, Manet exploits the broad planes of color and strong diagonals of Japanese prints to give inimitable form to this scene of outdoor leisure. Rodolphe Leenhoff, the artist’s brother-in-law, is thought to have posed for the sailor but the identity of the woman is uncertain.Shown in the Salon of 1879, Boating was deemed
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Boating (1874) by Edouard Manet, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Edouard Manet
(23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
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