Boating on the Yerres

It is getting colder and darker in Poland where we're based. So, to cheer up those, who are unlucky to experience autumn now I want to present this beautiful painting that reminds me of summer. I hope you will feel a bit better :) Gustave Caillebotte associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of the most steadfast, inventive, and supportive adherents of the Impressionist movement, exhibiting regularly with the two artists. Among his most impressive paintings are a series of seven boating scenes painted in 1877 and 1878 at his family estate along the Yerres River. This painting is one of the earliest and largest of his boating scenes. It depicts a group of sleek, one-main skiffs, known as périssoires, gliding through the quietest waters of the Yerres River. Almost two-thirds of the canvas is given over to the water, which is painted in a broad pattern of brightly colored horizontal brushstrokes. The three trees and their reflections help to stabilize the horizontal thrust of the composition to create an intellectually adjusted network of horizontals, verticals, and diagonals. This kind of subtly calculated interplay between surface and depth is characteristic of Caillebotte's finest paintings. Today's Caillebotte is owned by Milwaukee Art Museum on November 24th is about to be reopened after 14 months of renovation :) -- For over three years, we are delivering art to more than 250.000 every day. We need $15.000 to create new version of DailyArt with new features and extra content. On this website you will find more details and help us: http://support.getdailyart.com. Thank you!