Hip, Hip, Hurrah! scene (and in composition and subject draws obvious comparisons to Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"), but at the same time it harks back to the "freundschaftbild" tradition of artists of the Danish Golden Age such as Ditlev Blunck and Wilhelm Bendz in depicting artistic communities spontaneously drawing together. The development of Krøyer's Skagen style can be seen by comparing "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" with ("Artists' Luncheon at Skagen"), a similarly themed 1883 painting which features many of the same people; and with later works like "" ("Summer Evening at Skagen beach. The Artist and his Wife") and "Roser" ("Roses"). The
The Boating Party bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum, but some works were left to the Havemeyer children and have since ended up elsewhere. Art historian and museum administrator Frederick A. Sweet calls it "One of the most ambitious paintings she ever attempted". His 1966 analysis focusses on the balance of the "powerful dark silhouette of the boatman", the angle between the oar and the arm that "thrusts powerfully into the centre of the composition towards the mother and child" and "delicate, feminine ones". Cassatt placed the horizon at the top of the frame in Japanese fashion. colorplate 75 35 7/16x46 1/8 in. (90