Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
En bateau – Drawing for “Boating” painting at Metropolitan Museum, NYC
India ink on paper
Signed lower left
11.75 x 9 in / 29,8 x 22,9 cm
Framed: 20.25 x 17.25 in / 51,4 x 43,8 cm

Provenance:
Galerie H Matarasso, Nice, France
Private Collection, Cannes
By descent to current owner

Edward Manet’s “Boating,” in the permanent collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, was painted in 1874, while Manet was summering at Gennevilliers, and spending time with this younger Impressionist colleagues Monet and Renoir across the Seine at Argenteul, where Boating was painted. Beyond adopting the light touch and palette of the Impressionists. 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. It is this same unknown woman who is the subject of this very intimate ink drawing where, here as in the finished painting, the influence of Japanese prints is evident.

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