In the boat

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Dimension: 97,2 x 130,2 cm.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.

Manet painted “In the boat” when he was at Gennevilliers on the Seine. He painted his colleague Claude Monet and his wife. It was during this period that Manet came his closest to adopting the impressionist idiom “to work in the open air”.