Boating, 1874, Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (97. 2 x 130. 2 cm), Paintings, ?douard Manet (French, Paris 1832?1883 Paris), Manet summered at Gennevilliers in 1874, often spending time with Monet and Renoir across the Seine at Argenteuil, where Boating was painted. Beyond adopting the lighter touch and palette of his younger Impressionist colleagues, Manet exploits the broad planes of color and strong diagonals of Japanese prints to give inimitable form to this scene of outdoor leisure