| Périssoires sur l'Yerres (Boating on the Yerres) | |
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| Artist | Gustave Caillebotte |
| Year | 1877 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Impressionism |
| Dimensions | 103.51 cm × 155.89 cm (40.75 in × 61.37 in) |
| Location | Milwaukee Art Museum,Milwaukee, Wisconsin[1] |
| Website | Milwaukee Art Museum Collection Online |
Boating on the Yerres (French:Périssoires sur l'Yerres) is a 1877 painting by Frenchimpressionist andrealist painterGustave Caillebotte.[2][3]
FromUrban Milwaukee:
This painting is one of the earliest and largest of the seven boating scenes that Caillebotte completed between 1877 and 1878 at his family's estate along the riverYerres.
During the weeks leading up toSuper Bowl XLV between theGreen Bay Packers and thePittsburgh Steelers, theCarnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Milwaukee Art Museum made a friendly wager to loan one piece from their permanent collection to the winning team's museum, with the Carnegie Museum of Art agreeing to loanPierre-Auguste Renoir'sBathers With Crab and the Milwaukee Art Museum agreeing to loanBoating on the Yerres.[5][6]
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