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Boating, 1874. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (97.2 x 130.2 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: Boating
Artist: Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)
Date: 1874
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (97.2 x 130.2 cm)
Credit line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1832–1883

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.