Boating on the Yerres

Périssoires sur l'Yerres (Boating on the Yerres)
Artist	Gustave Caillebotte
Year	1877
Medium	Oil on canvas
Movement	Impressionism
Dimensions	103.51 cm × 155.89 cm (40.75 in × 61.37 in)
Location	Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin[1]
Website	Milwaukee Art Museum Collection Online

Boating on the Yerres (French: Périssoires sur l'Yerres) is a 1877 painting by French impressionist and realist painter Gustave Caillebotte.[2][3]

Description

From Urban Milwaukee:

"The three boats — sporty, kayak-like craft — glide on a stream that opens in a wedge shape. The tilt of the riverbank exaggerates the downhill flow of the water. The geometry of the painting, a rough wedge expanding from the top right to the lower left, promotes the sense of downward, leftward flow. The lead boat cuts an arrowhead of light into the shadow cast by the large tree."[4]

This painting is one of the earliest and largest of the seven boating scenes that Caillebotte completed between 1877 and 1878 at his family's estate along the river Yerres.

Influence

During the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Milwaukee Art Museum made a friendly wager to loan one piece from their permanent collection to the winning team's museum, with the Carnegie Museum of Art agreeing to loan Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Bathers With Crab and the Milwaukee Art Museum agreeing to loan Boating on the Yerres.[5][6]

See also

• List of paintings by Gustave Caillebotte

References

1. Greg Cook (13 February 2014). "Impressionists Capture The Dawn Of Suburbia". WBUR. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
2. Mary Louise Schumacher (13 November 2015). "Rethinking story of art transforms Milwaukee Art Museum". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
3. Chardeau, G.; Cate, P.D.; Lloyd, C.; Charles, D. (2013). Impressionists on the Water. United States of America: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated. ISBN 9780847840250.
4. Tom Strini (5 April 2010). "One Piece at a Time: Caillebotte's Boating on the Yerres". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
5. NPR Staff (6 February 2011). "Pittsburgh Bets A Renoir On Super Bowl Victory". NPR. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
6. "Impressionist paintings wagered on Super Bowl". CNN. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2019.