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Monet painted several images of his family boating along the Epte River, just before he finally settled in Giverny. This work is one of the most highly finished of a series of paintings entitled Boating. The blue and rose coloration that suffuses the scene contrasts with the freshness of green and vermilion to create a rich, dreamlike figural image. The figures shown are Suzanne and Blanche, two of Mrs. Hoschedé's children. The composition of boldly slicing the boat in half indicates Monet's study of the art of photography and Japanese ukiyoe prints.

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, c. 1924; Sequestered by the French Government, 1944; Returned to Japan, 1959.

Exhibition History

1924

Monet, Georges Petit, Paris, 1924 - 1924, cat. no. 10

1948

Gli impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 1948 - 1948, cat. no. 7

1952

Monet, Kunsthaus, Zürich, 1952 - 1952, cat. no. 71

1952

Monet, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, Den Haag, 1952 - 1952, cat. no. 55

1958

Paysages de France, Musée de Rouen, 1958 - 1958, cat. no. 136

1960

The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 71, repr.

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, 20 October 1962 - 5 November 1962, P-206

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Gallery of Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, 17 November 1962 - 9 December 1962, cat. no. 36 (当館記録による）

1963

The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, 5 October 1963 - 20 October 1963, P-206

1963

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 26 October 1963 - 10 November 1963, P-206

1964

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nakajima Sports Center of Hokkaido Prefecture, Sapporo, 22 August 1964 - 13 September 1964, cat. no. 11

1965

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 8

1965

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 8

1966

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Wakayama, 15 October 1966 - 4 November 1966, cat. no. 7

1966

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 12 November 1966 - 27 November 1966, cat. no. 7

1967

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Kagoshima Municipal Museum of Art, Kagoshima, 28 April 1967 - 21 May 1967, cat. no. 9

1968

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum, Niigata, 14 July 1968 - 4 August 1968, cat. no. 11

1968

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Hiroshima, 26 October 1968 - 17 November 1968, cat. no. 11

1969

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito, 22 November 1969 - 21 December 1969, cat. no. 11

1970

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, 18 October 1970 - 15 November 1970, cat. no. 42

1971

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Toyama Prefectural Center, Museum of Art, Toyama, 2 October 1971 - 24 October 1971, cat. no. 39

1972

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shinano Museum of Art of Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, 12 October 1972 - 5 November 1972, cat. no. 41

1973

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Kochi Prefecture, Kochi, 28 October 1973 - 25 November 1973, cat. no. 43

1974

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka, 13 October 1974 - 10 November 1974, cat. no. 42

1974

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Saga Prefectural Museum, Saga, 16 November 1974 - 1 December 1974, cat. no. 42

1975

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, 1 November 1975 - 30 November 1975, cat. no. 42

1977

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara, 15 October 1977 - 13 November 1977, cat. no. 11

1978

[Tour Exhibition] Masterpieces from the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 20 December 1978 - 31 January 1979, cat. no. 11

1979

French paintings at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in Japanese collections, Hermitage, Leningrad, 1979 - 1979, Vilnius Museum, Vilnius; Puschkin Museum, Moscow, 1979, cat. no. 4, col. repr.

1982

Monet, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 9 October 1982 - 28 November 1982, cat. no. 35

1988

Japonisme, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 17 May 1988 - 15 August 1988, cat. no. 248, col. repr.

1996

The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 7

2000

Tanka at the National Museum of Western Art: An Encounter between Poet and Art, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 25 July 2000 - 29 October 2000, cat. no. 39

Bibliography

1927

Duc de Trévise. Le pèlerinage de Giverny. Revue de l'Art. tome 1, 1927, p. 49, repr.

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 15, col. repr.

1959

Zusetsu Sekai Bunkashi Taikei.vol. 10, Tokyo, Kadokawa Shoten, 1959, pp. 145-146, col. repr.

1959

Mizue: a monthly review of the fine arts. no. 656, December 1959, p. 28, repr.

1961

Tominaga, Soichi. Inshouha no Gaka tachi. Sekai Bijyutsu Zenshu. vol. 36, Tokyo, Kadokawa Shoten, 1961, p. 181, pl. 30.

1961

Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-206.

1968

Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 2, 1968, p. 11, no. 16, repr.

1971

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 49, repr.

1972

Bortolatto, L. R. L'opera completa di Claude Monet, 1870-1889. Milano, 1972, p. 108, no. 316, repr.

1972

Rouart, D.; Rey, J. D. Monet Nymphéas. Paris, 1972, pp. 56-57, repr.

1973

Tanaka, Hidemichi. L'inspiration artistique de Nymphéas de Monet. Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental. No.6 (1971), 1973, pp. 33- 43.

1975

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 33, repr.

1978

Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 41, repr.

1979

Wildenstein, D. Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné. tome 3, Lausanne/Paris, 1979, p. 98, no. 1152, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 189, repr.