BACK TO THE ARTIST   Boating at Argenteuil, 1875           Details     Description     Artist Manet, Édouard In the summer of 1874, Monet, Renoir, andManetwere together at Argenteuil on the Seine near Paris and painted several portraits of each other with their families and friends. This picture of Claude Monet and his wife is one of the most vivid and suggestsManet’s close ties with the Impressionists, even though he always refused to exhibit with them. From this dateManet’s paintings become more and more marked by the broken color and bright palette of the work of his associates. Outdoor themes, unusual in his early paintings, become much more common, and his attitude is grayer and more carefree.     Date 1875   Institution Museum of Fine Arts, Tournai, Belgium     Medium Oil on canvas   Dimensions 131 x 122 cm