Boating (Manet)

Boating is an 1874 painting by French artist Édouard Manet in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[1]

Boating
Year1874
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions97.2 cm × 130.2 cm (38.3 in × 51.3 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession29.100.115

Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a man (believed to be Manet's brother in law, Rodolphe Leenhoff) and an unknown woman boating on the River Seine at Argenteuil in the Paris suburbs.

In the work Manet uses a delicate touch to exploit the broad planes of color and strong diagonals of Japanese prints.

The work is on view in Gallery 818.

References

  1. "metmuseum.org". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
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