The Studio Boat
Perspectives from The Artist's Road
La Barque-Atelier 1876 Claude Monet
Among our very favorite paintings Claude Monet created while living in Giverny, are the series of views of the Epte and Seine rivers. Some of these views were clearly painted from a position in a boat on the river, not from the shore. We have always admired that Monet had a special purpose-built painting boat (his “bateau-atelier”, or studio boat) constructed just so he could get a vantage point on the water. That floating studio allowed him to row onto the Epte and even the larger Seine to paint subjects otherwise not viewable from land.
Guest artists were occasionally invited to paint with Monet. The list includes Renoir, Pissarro, Manet and more. Manet chose to paint Monet himself working in the boat alongside his wife, Camille.
Monet Painting in His Studio Boat 1874 Edouard Manet
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