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 in gardens. It is also one of her largest oil paintings. In 1890 Cassatt visited the great Japanese Print exhibition at the ecole de Beaux-arts in Paris. Mary Cassatt owned Japanese prints by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806). The exhibition at Durand-Ruel of Japanese art proved the most important influence on Cassatt. Frederick A. Sweet suggests that Cassatt may have been inspired by Édouard Manet's "Boating" from 1874."Boating" was exhibited at the (fourth?) Impressionist Exhibition of 1879, where it was not well received. Cassatt however, convinced her friend Louisine Havemeyer to buy it. Much of the work from the Havemeyer collection was