Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 124
En bateau had been painted in 1874, at the same time asthe Argenteuil, but in a less violent colour-scheme. It containedno passage so daring as the blue water forming the backgroundof the Argenteuil. The principal figure, a young man, was holdingthe rudder of the boat; the white of his jersey… … THE OPEN AIR 85 Manets other works painted in the same manner, on accountof the variety of tone and the brilliancy of colouring. Twofigures stood out prominently against the green plants of theconservatory; one, a young woman, was reclining on a garden-seat ; the other, a young man, with his elbows…
