This is an oil on canvas hand painted reproduction of Claude Monet’s original oil painting titled The Boat, created in 1887: And indeed it pays real homage to this incredible artist now renowned as leader of the Impressionist movement. The original is part of the collection at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. This museum has the largest collection of Monet art works in the world in addition to impressionist and post-impressionist art works by artists such as Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas.

Claude Monet created a series of oil paintings which he titled Boating. Some of the canvases, such as On The Boat feature members of his family drifting along or moored alongside the River Epte: This oil painting The Boat is one of the few that did not. The Epte River was connected by small waterways to Monet’s famous Giverney garden and the artist would often sail downstream and paint upon his small but functional floating studio: His series The Poplars featured trees along this river.

Monet created series of painting because he enjoyed investigating the same scene at varyinying times of the year and day: This is primarily because Monet’s major concern was to capture the play of light a its affect upon color and so atmosphere – Today we accept that lighting and color have a major affect upon the ambience of an environment: However, at the turn of the twentieth century this was not so realized. Indeed, Claude Monet was a pioneer.