The founder of French impressionism, Claude Monet, his friend and colleague, whose surname differed by just one letter, Edouard Manet, shrewdly and precisely called “Raphael of the water.” Indeed, the water element was for Monet a source of inexhaustible inspiration – because of its variability and fluidity.
The town of Arzhantey near Paris became a kind of French Abramtsev. Here, on a visit to Monet came to friends, artists, they are fun and fruitful time. Monet was able to realize his old plan – built a kind of floating workshop, in which he made regular trips around the Seine. During these, he, of course, did not stop working for a minute: he captured the surrounding views he liked, continued to study the play of light and shadow, and pondered a lot on the properties of water. It would be strange if Monet did not draw his boat studio.
It is depicted on the joke, in a quiet backwater, when the weather is serene, there is a “golden” autumn all around. Barely discernible breeze shakes the water surface. Of course, the workshop itself for such a small boat looks somewhat cumbersome, occupies almost all of its physical space, except the stern. However, most likely, it was intended by the artist. After all, he was not going to become a navigator, but continued to remain a master of painting.
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