| Boating | |
| Year: | 1874 |
| Material: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 97.2 |
| Width Metric: | 130.2 |
| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| City: | 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.