Skiffs (painting)


Skiffs, also known as Boating on the Yerres, is an oil painting by French impressionist and realist painter Gustave Caillebotte, completed in 1877.

Description

From Urban 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 river Yerres.

Influence

During the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Carnegie 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 loan Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Bathers With Crab and the Milwaukee Art Museum agreeing to loan Skiffs.