Description
Mary Cassatt's painting The Boating Party is a bold composition that reveals the influence of flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed great fashion in Paris at the end of the 19th century. .
The painting depicts an unknown woman, baby and man on a sailboat. The ship has a canoe stern, has no boom, and has three thwarts. The interior of the ship is described as yellow. It is an unusual painting in Cassatt's work. While it shows his family theme of a mother and child, most of his other paintings are set indoors or in gardens. It is also one of his largest oil paintings.
The Boating Party is ranked no. 74 on the list of famous paintings