Boating | |
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Year | 1874 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 97.2 cm × 130.2 cm (38.3 in × 51.3 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Accession | 29.100.115 |
Boating is an 1874 painting by French artist Édouard Manet in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [1]
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. [2]
In the work Manet uses two new blue pigments, cerulean blue and synthetic ultramarine. The composition is radically cropped and inspired by Japanese art. [3]
The work is on view in Gallery 818.