Boating (Manet)

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

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 two new blue pigments, cerulean blue and synthetic ultramarine. The composition is radically cropped and inspired by Japanese art.

The work is on view in Gallery 818.