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The Boating Party  1894

by Mary Cassatt

This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance. Our higher vantage point gives ...
Size: 
90 x 117.3 cm (35 7/16 x 46 3/16 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington