Édouard Manet [1823-1883], Monet Painting on his Boat, 1874.Monet had fitted up a small houseboat where he could work in peaceful isolation amidst all the colorful elements of nature he sought to record. When the sun got too hot, he stretched an awning from the cabin amidships to the small mast aft. Manet twice painted his friend at work in his floating studio; this is the brighter and livelier version. Seen sharply in profile in the foreground, wearing yellow flannel trousers and a white shirt with a dark tie, Monet paints the landscape in front of him. His wife Camille is seated in the doorway of the cabin.
- Albert Skira, Impressionism After 1873, 1959, p.34
An earlier reference to Monet here.
