Between 1877 and 1878, Gustave Caillebotte made a series of paintings focusing on swimmers, fishermen, rowers, and canoers at his family estate in Yerres. In Skiffs, which was exhibited at the fourth impressionist exhibition in 1879 under the name Pésissoires sur L’Yerres (Flat-Bottom Canoes on the Yerres), he adopted the short, broken brushstrokes of Monet and the bold pa...
Size:
88.9 x 116.2 cm (35 x 45 3/4 in.)
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington
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