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THE NORMANDY & PARIS REGION GUIDE 2020 IMPRESSIONIST ADVENTURES, INSPIRING MOMENTS!

elcome to Normandy and Paris Region! It is in these regions and nowhere else that you can admire marvellous Impressionist paintings W while also enjoying the instantaneous emotions that inspired their artists. It was here that the art movement that revolutionised the history of art came into being and blossomed. Enamoured of nature and the advances in modern life, the Impressionists set up their easels in forests and gardens along the rivers Seine and Oise, on the Norman coasts, and in the heart of Paris’s districts where modernity was at its height. These settings and landscapes, which for the most part remain unspoilt, still bear the stamp of the greatest Impressionist artists, their precursors and their heirs: Daubigny, Boudin, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Caillebotte, Sisley, Van Gogh, Luce and many others. Today these regions invite you on a series of Impressionist journeys on which to experience many joyous moments. Admire the changing sky and light as you gaze out to sea and recharge your batteries in the cool of a garden. Relive the artistic excitement of Paris and Montmartre and the authenticity of the period’s bohemian culture. Enjoy a certain Impressionist joie de vivre in company: a “déjeuner sur l’herbe” with family, or a glass of wine with friends on the banks of the Oise or at an open-air café on the Seine. Be moved by the beauty of the paintings that fill the museums and enter the private lives of the artists, exploring their gardens and homes-cum-studios. Our Impressionist adventures offer endless inspiring moments. Just choose the ones you wish to enjoy! ROUEN ITINERARIES & THE SEINE’S Your Impressionist journey MEANDERS 6 à la carte 46 Explore Rouen, an open-air BON VOYAGE studio for the impressionists In Normandy and Paris Region, enjoy For the year 2020, look out for many PARIS & unique experiences in nine different exciting new things. These include THE SEINE areas deeply marked by the great renovated museums, such as the Musée MONTMARTRE Impressionist movement. Whether de l’Orangerie in Paris and the Musée ESTUARY Discover the masterpieces in urban settings or the open Maurice Denis at St-Germain-en-Laye, 52 From Le Havre to Deauville 8 of Impressionism and relive via Honfleur, relive the dawn the brillance of the period countryside, on the banks of the Seine new museum presentations, for of Impressionism or the seashore, in unspoilt forests example at the Musée Fournaise or the intimacy of a private garden, in Chatou, and a brand-new cultural BARBIZON, ITS these areas still preserve today all space in Deauville, Les Franciscaines, THE CÔTE SURROUNDINGS the beauty of the landscapes that that will exhibit a beautiful permanent inspired the Impressionist painters. collection of Impressionist works... D’ALBÂTRE 16 & YERRES 58 Enjoy a helping of art Discover Impressionism This guide presents a fine selection Also keep a keen eye out on on the Côte d’Albâtre and its precursors south of Paris of museums, artists’ houses, visits the Normandie Impressionniste and sites for you to visit. Festival, taking place this summer, featuring almost 500 events across FROM CAEN THE BANKS 200 sites, celebrating artistic creativity TO THE OF THE SEINE from the Impressionists to the present. COTENTIN 22 Enjoy the beauty of the banks 62 of the Seine just outside Paris At the time this brochure Drift with the currents was going to press, of Impressionism the global health situation remained highly uncertain, AUVERS putting into question some of the practical information EXCURSIONS & THE OISE contained here. Please, before planning any trip, may From Paris to Normandy, VALLEY we strongly advise that you in the footsteps of the Impressionist 30 check the relevant websites painters From Pissarro to Van Gogh, follow 68 of the places mentioned in the footsteps of great artists here and the websites of the Normandy and Paris region Tourist Boards: en.normandie-tourisme.fr GIVERNY & ITS visitparisregion.com/en DIARY SURROUNDINGS A selection of exhibitions from across our Impressionist regions See Giverny and experience 40 and featuring in the Normandie Impressionism in Claude Monet’s 72 Impressionnisme festival “ ever so beautiful corner of the world ” Varengeville- sur-Mer Netherlands Dieppe Great Britain

Offranville Belgium Germany Veules- Luxembourg Fécamp les-Roses Beaumont- Yport Gréville-Hague Hague Barfleur Étretat THE CÔTE D’ALBÂTRE Vauville Cherbourg- FRANCE Switzerland Saint-Vaast-la Hougue en-Cotentin Sainte-Adresse Rives- Rouen Italy Le Havre en-Seine Grandcamp-Maisy Port-en-Bessin- Huppain Trouville-sur-Mer ROUEN & THE SEINE’S Deauville Honfleur MEANDERS Houlgate Pont-Audemer Bayeux La Bouille -Sahurs Spain THE SEINE Les Andelys ESTUARY GIVERNY & FROM TO Caen CAEN ITS SURROUNDINGS THE COTENTIN AUVERS & Vernon La Roche- Fervaques Guyon THE OISE VALLEY Giverny L’Isle-Adam Pontoise Auvers-sur-Oise Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône Mantes-la-Jolie Saint-Germain- Chatou Asnières en-Laye Croissy-sur-Seine Île de la Jatte Bougival PARIS & MONTMARTRE & Marly-le-Roi NORMANDY Meudon THE BANKS Yerres PARIS REGION OF THE SEINE FROM YERRES TO BARBIZON

Barbizon Vulaines-sur-Seine Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei Fontainebleau Moret-sur-Loing CHATOU 17

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YERRES 28 52 42

AUVERS-SUR-OISE 33 34 96 70

GIVERNY 75 68 136 110 62 ROUEN 136 125 191 175 105 67 IMPRESSIONIST LE HAVRE 210 188 252 236 206 132 90 9 DIEPPE 198 190 253 237 166 133 67 118 AREAS DISTANCES IN Site discussed Further PARIS ROUEN YERRES

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GIVERNY in the brochure Impressionist sites

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PARIS & MONTMARTRE , 1876, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Paris Bal du moulin de la Galette , 1876, Musée d’Orsay, Auguste Renoir, © photo RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Patrice Schmidt DISCOVER THE MASTERPIECES OF IMPRESSIONISM AND RELIVE THE BRILLIANCE OF THE PERIOD

aris is an unmissable destination in our Impressionist adventures. In 1859, Claude Monet moved from Le Havre P to the capital, which he referred to as “head-spinning Paris”. Napoleon III had recently undertaken huge public works, directed by Baron Haussmann. Paris’s appearance altered dramatically and the transformations generated a great change in the way of life of its inhabitants. Café-concerts, brasseries, balls, circuses, operas and theatres, parks and public gardens, horseracing and many other forms of recreation began to flourish. So many places sprang up that the Impressionists frequented and depicted as chroniclers of the modern way of life. Manet , Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Caillebotte and others were thrilled by the city and its bustling life, which offered them new themes. Today, Paris is home to the world’s largest collection of Impressionist paintings, to which Claude Monet made a major contribution. Paris is also packed with places from the Impressionist era. A visit to the Butte de Montmartre is a must. Its squares packed with history, its streets lined with cafés and its famed nightspots still reflect the joie de vivre and liveliness of the Impressionist era.

© CRT Paris Region Tourist Board / Yasuhiro Ogawa / Yasuhiro Board © CRT Paris Region Tourist 9 MUSÉE MUSEUM D’ORSAY © Van Biesen / Ooshot / CRT Paris Region Tourist Board Biesen / Ooshot CRT Paris Region Tourist © Van

MUSÉE DE L’ ! © Musée d’Orsay / Sophie Boegly ORANGERIE TOP TIP In 1986 the old station built to receive visitors to the Universal Exposition For André Masson (a pattern-drawer who became a painter) COMBINED TICKET of 1900 was turned into a museum dedicated to the arts of the years 1848–1914. this museum is the “Sistine Chapel of Impressionism”. MUSÉE D’ORSAY & MUSÉE This exceptional building is home to some of the greatest Impressionist paintings, It holds the greatest and largest series of Water Lilies, DE L’ORANGERIE such as Olympia and Le déjeuner sur l’herbe by Édouard Manet, masterpieces that Claude Monet offered the French Access to both the permanent Women Ironing by Edgar Degas, the Dance at the Moulin state in 1918. These eight mural paintings made up and temporary collections: de la Galette and The Swing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, of 22 panels line two oval rooms bathed in natural light a visit to each of the two museums for €18. Validity: three months from date of purchase. and London, Houses of Parliament and Rouen Cathedral thanks to their glass roofs. The museum also holds by Claude Monet. Other masterpieces the entire Walter Guillaume Collection of 146 works, COMBINED TICKET in the museum include Starry Night INSPIRING including 25 by Renoir, 15 by Cézanne, and 1 each MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE and The Church at Auvers-sur-Oise by Gauguin, Monet and Sisley, presented in a brand-new & FONDATION CLAUDE MONET by Vincent van Gogh. MOMENTS hanging that will be unveiled from mid-May, GIVERNY in renovated rooms. On sale at both sites concerned.

MUSÉE D’ORSAY After leaving the Musée d’Orsay €18.50 (on sale until 10 October) or the Orangerie, prolong the Impressionist MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE 1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur, experience with a walk in the Tuileries Gardens. 75007 PARIS An archetypal facet of life in Paris, this magnificent Place de la Concorde, 75001 Paris Tel: 01 40 49 48 14 park in the French style, lying between the Louvre Tel: 01 44 77 80 07 www.musee-orsay.fr and the Place de la Concorde, fascinated Claude www.musee-orangerie.fr Monet and Pissarro in particular. From Orsay, take the Léopold Sédar Senghor footbridge that spans the Seine and stroll to MUSEUM the Tuileries Gardens and Musée de l’Orangerie.

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MUSÉE MUSEUM MARMOTTAN ! © JP. Delagarde / CRT Paris IDF Delagarde © JP. MONET TOP TIP In this museum, you can admire the painting that gave QUEUE-BEATER TWIN TICKET Impressionism its name, the emblematic Impression, MUSÉE MARMOTTAN MONET Sunrise by Claude Monet. In fact, the Musée Marmottan & FONDATION CLAUDE MONET SITE OPÉRA Monet exhibits the world’s largest collection of works by GIVERNY Monet. Bequeathed by the artist’s family, these canvases On sale in the two sites concerned. came from the painter’s house in Giverny. Displayed in a Valid from 1 April to 1 November 2020. space measuring 200 m2 specially designed to hold the Adultes: €21.50 GARNIER Reduced: €14 master’s paintings, landscapes of Normandy, Italy and (children over 7, students under 25) Famous around the world, since 1875 the Opéra Garnier has dominated Holland are followed by an unequalled series of Water The disabled: €4 one of the most elegant avenues in Paris laid out by Baron Haussmann. Lilies. A major centre of Impressionism, the museum also Free: children under 7 A great lover of music and dance, Edgar Degas was a regular visitor holds the most important collection of works by Berthe to the Opéra. He was very fond of the wings, and the rehearsals that Morisot. Further masterpieces bear the names of Corot, took place on the stage and in the foyer, which inspired some of his most Manet, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir and Gauguin. beautiful paintings and sculptures, like the Little Dancer. MUSÉE MARMOTTAN MONET OPÉRA GARNIER 2 rue Louis Boilly, 75016 Paris Place de l’Opéra, Tel: 01 44 96 50 33 75009 Paris www.marmottan.fr www.operadeparis.fr

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GUIDED ITINERARY TOURS OF MONTMARTRE © Alexandre Nestora © Alexandre (FOR GROUPS) Delagarde © Jean-Pierre

What better than to discover Three guided tours to immerse you in 19th-century Set amidst buildings dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, the museum 19th-century Paris from the Seine? Montmartre in poetic, surprising ways: is surrounded by three gardens and looks over a vineyard onto a broad swath The theme-based river trip “The Paris “An Impressionist Walk”, “In Van Gogh’s Footsteps” of the Seine Valley. On the very spot where Renoir had his studio (it was here , of the Impressionists” will plunge you and “Toulouse Lautrec’s Montmartre”. notably, that he painted the Dance at the Moulin de la Galette and The Swing), into the movement’s “head-spinning As an additional extra, you can taste the celebrated the museum reflects the heyday of the Butte de Montmartre. Paintings, posters, capital”. View reproductions of great absinthe “La Libertine”. musical scores and much more evoke the artistic excitement masterpieces during your trip, led by associated with the area. The museum allows visitors Please note: five information panels in Rue des Saules an accredited expert guide. to soak up the atmosphere of the late 19th century. illustrate the Van Gogh itinerary in Montmartre. Year-round for groups of 15 people or more; The studio-cum-apartment inhabited by Suzanne Valadon (painter and painter’s model) by reservation. MONTMARTRE UN VILLAGE, INSPIRING and her son Maurice Utrillo can also be visited. TOURIST OFFICE MOMENTS VEDETTES DE PARIS 7 rue Drevet, 75018 Paris www.vedettesdeparis.fr MUSÉE DE MONTMARTRE - JARDINS RENOIR Tel: 01 42 62 21 21 www.montmartreinfo.com 12 rue Cortot, 75018 Paris Take a seat at the Café Renoir in the Musée de Montmartre. Take the time to absorb Tel: 01 49 25 89 37 - www.museedemontmartre.fr this place’s magical atmosphere, enjoying the light in the museum’s pretty garden just two steps from Place du Tertre. Relish ITINERARY the magnificent view over the vines of the Clos Montmartre and beyond onto the vast plain to the north of Paris for a moment of pure pleasure.

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ot far from Paris and its vibrant atmosphere you can enjoy the pleasures of the great outdoors at the gates N of the capital. Between Yerres and Barbizon a broad band of countryside still bears the stamp of the Impressionists and the painters who preceded them. Its forest, charming villages and rivers and streams drew painters to this region. Today many places here invite you to enter and discover their secrets: artists’ houses, museums, dynamic galleries and more. Some of the paintings by Gustave Caillebotte were influenced by the time he spent in his family property at Yerres to the east of Paris. And Sisley spent the last 20 years of his life in Moret-sur- Loing. An outing taking in Barbizon, on the edge of Fontainebleau Forest, provides an excellent pretext for following in the footsteps of the landscape painters of the Barbizon School, such as Millet and Rousseau, who created the art movement that preceded the Impressionists.

© CRT Paris Region Tourist Board / Yasuhiro Ogawa / Yasuhiro Board © CRT Paris Region Tourist 17 MUSEUM MUSÉE MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL THE DES ARTISTS JEAN-FRANÇOIS PEINTRES DE ITINERARY AT MILLET BARBIZON FONTAINEBLEAU Millet lived and worked here from 1849 until his death in The Auberge Ganne, 1875. It was in this studio that he painted such scenes of where many painters used to stay, rural life as The Angelus and The Gleaners, two paintings has been transformed into that have travelled around the world and can be seen today a museum containing some in the Musée d’Orsay. The studio still holds personal objects 100 works. With its period decor, belonging to the artist, in particular his correspondence, it gives an idea of the daily life drawings and engravings. Also displayed: a series of the artists enjoyed at this warmly original works by masters of the Barbizon School. atmospheric inn. © Barbizon Tourisme

BARBIZON ITINERARY PAINTERS © A.Laurin / CRT Paris IDF MDPB © Yvan Bourhis MDPB © Yvan DISCOVERY CIRCUIT

MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL Following in the footsteps of the 19th-century For 40 years, the area of Fontainebleau DES PEINTRES DE BARBIZON landscape painters who fell for Barbizon, this walk will was the centre of an artistic revolution: 92 grande rue, 77630 Barbizon introduce you to the village. Visit the places frequented that of the precursors of Impressionism. Tel: 01 60 66 22 27 by the artists on a daily basis before plunging into Between Barbizon and Chailly-en-Bière, www.musee-peintres-barbizon.fr Fontainebleau Forest (UNESCO biosphere) and the sites discover the artists’ itinerary in the by which the artists were inspired. footsteps of the Impressionists.

MUSEUM The itinerary can be downloaded from Other walking routes in Fontainebleau Forest

© Hiam Farhat www.fontainebleau-tourisme.com can be downloaded from Audio-guides are also available for download on the site www.fontainebleau-tourisme.com www.zevisit.com MUSÉE JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET FONTAINEBLEAU TOURISME Don’t miss the open-air museum that exhibits 20 modern creations 27 grande Rue, 77630 Barbizon INSPIRING made in Venetian glass by mosaicist artists. This approximately 6 km 4 place de la République, Tel: 01 60 66 21 55 cultural walk will take you into the heart of the village of Barbizon, 77300 Fontainebleau www.musee-millet.fr MOMENTS from the plain of the Angelus to the edge of the wood. Tel: 01 60 74 99 99 www.fontainebleau-tourisme.com Audio-guides available. Share a moment with friends or family on the terrace of a restaurant in Barbizon. OFFICE DU TOURISME DE BARBIZON Allow yourself to be charmed by the unique atmosphere of Place Marc Jacquet, 77630 Barbizon ITINERARY this village of artists and Tel: 01 60 66 41 87 - www.fontainebleau-tourisme.com linger in its gallery-lined streets.

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MUSEUM MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL MALLARMÉ The summer home, from 1874 till Yasuhiro Ogawa Yasuhiro his death in 1898, of Stéphane Mallarmé, / Board © CRT Paris Region Tourist the “Impressionist poet” in the words of Victor Hugo, and “best friend” and defender of Édouard Manet, has today been recreated with its furniture OUTINGS IN and family belongings, as well as works ‘S by his artist friends. Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet painted SISLEY in the property’s beautiful flower and vegetable garden. FOOTSTEPS © Sébastien Erras

Born to English parents, Alfred Sisley took up painting in Paris with a group of young artists that included PROPRIÉTÉ Bazille, Renoir and Monet. He settled in the region ! of Moret-sur-Loing about 1880, where he would remain TOP TIP for 20 years untill his death, immortalising the small CAILLEBOTTE mediaeval town whose charm had remained intact. Many artists still visit today to set up their easels. Gustave Caillebotte spent 19 years with his family in their If you buy a ticket to the Propriété Caillebotte, Sisley and his wife were buried together, at his request, summer home in Yerres. During this period he painted you’re entitled to a buy a ticket to the Musée in Moret graveyard, beneath a rock from the forest 89 works and, from 1875 to 1879, created some of his des Impressionnismes de Giverny at reduced price, and vice versa. of Fontainebleau. Several itineraries will take you most famous pieces, such as Bathers, Bank of the Yerres. © Y. Bourhis - DAPMD/CG77 © Y. to the landscapes painted by Alfred Sisley in Moret- The house has been fully restored and refurnished, PROPRIÉTÉ CAILLEBOTTE sur-Loing and its surrounding villages: Saint-Mammès, to look as it did in the painter’s lifetime. Immerse yourself 8 rue de Concy, 91330 Yerres Thomery, Veneux-les-Sablons. MUSEE DEPARTEMENTAL in the atmosphere of a sumptuous late-19th-century holiday Tel: 01 80 37 20 61 STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ The Tourist Office puts on guided tours: home on a visit. Listed as a French Maison The grounds are open every day free of charge. For more information on opening days 4, promenade Mallarmé, 77870 Vulaines-sur-Seine “Sur les pas de Sisley” and “Les enfants de l’Impressionnisme”. des Illustres, thanks to its illustrious former proprietor, and times, visit: proprietecaillebotte.com Tel: 01 64 23 73 27 - www.musee-mallarme.fr the place faithfully reproduces the artist’s personal world. OFFICE DE TOURISME MORET SEINE ET LOING The dining room, drawing room and billiards room have 4 bis place de Samois, Moret-sur-Loing, 77250 Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne been entirely redecorated, while one family room now Tel: 01 60 70 41 66 - www.msl-tourisme.fr displays its original Empire furniture. The atmosphere LE POINT SISLEY of Caillebotte’s studio has also been recreated and INSPIRING canvases by the artist are regularly exhibited here. INSPIRING 24, rue Grande, Moret-sur-Loing, 77250 Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne MOMENTS MOMENTS Tel: 01 60 70 39 99 - www.alfred-sisley.com To appreciate to the full this fine white home set in its 11 hectares of grounds, try the augmented reality tour, available via smartphone, or by hiring a tablet. On sunny days take a walk through Hire a bicycle and ramble through the grounds of the Caillebotte residence, the mediaeval alleyways of Moret-sur- The first Sunday of each month, at 3pm, its vegetable garden and outlying buildings. Loing. Then swap your bike for a canoe ITINERARY join a free guided tour of the grounds. Open to all. and let the Loing do the work. After SITE It’s a true pleasure! Enjoy the site just as it was appreciated by the painter admiring the town’s historic buildings, in its idyllic and unspoilt setting. enjoy the lapping of the water as you Then take a boat trip on the River taste a stick of barley sugar from Yerres and just go with Moret-sur-Loing, a speciality of the flow. the village since 1638. SITE

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THE BANKS OF THE SEINE , 1884-86, à la Grande Jatte , 1884-86, Seurat, Un dimanche après-midi Pierre Georges The Art Institute of Chicago © Bridgeman Images ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF THE BANKS OF THE SEINE AT THE GATES OF PARIS

hereas the modernised Paris provided plenty of inspiration for the Impressionists, the expansion W of the railways, the improvement in painting materials and the growth in popularity of recreational activities offered them new themes close to the capital. It was along the meanders of the Seine west of Paris, at places such as Chatou, Bougival and the Île de la Jatte, that a joie de vivre was cultivated around the pleasures of frivolity, dancing and boating. This period was admirably depicted by Monet’s La Grenouillère, Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party and Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte, which feature guinguettes (open-air dance halls), afternoon siestas, boating trips and picnics. Such inspiring moments, captured by the Impressionists, are still very much to be enjoyed.

ÎLE DE LAJATTE NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE LEVALLOIS-PERRET

The Impressionists itinerary, which features reproductions of paintings inspired by the Île de la Jatte, offers you the chance to discover this very special place made famous around the world by Georges Seurat and his painting Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte.

Itinerary available on La pêche au printemps Vincent van Gogh, La pêche au printemps © Art Institute of Chicago © MAHM www.tourisme92.com

Between Asnières Bridge and Clichy Bridge, discover Meudon’s art and history museum has D’ the landscapes that influenced such famous painters a collection of paintings and watercolours MUSÉE ART ET as Van Gogh, Émile Bernard, Paul Signac and Georges representative of the history of French D’ DE Seurat, for whom Asnières was both home and landscape painting from the late 18th HISTOIRE a place of inspiration. century to the 1950s. The Barbizon School

Itinerary open to all, with heritage panels along the route. is represented by Theodore Rousseau and the Impressionists by Albert Lebourg MEUDON MAISON DU TOURISME and his luminous painting of the Port of La Rochelle. Tel: 01 71 07 82 25 or 82 28 [email protected] MUSEE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE INSPIRING DE MEUDON MOMENTS 11 rue des pierres, 92190 Meudon © JL Dolmaire musee.meudon.fr ITINERARY At Ville d’Avray, walk around the lakes known as “Les Etangs de Corot”, in homage to the great artist who immortalised the local landscapes. Glimpse his house and see the frescoes he painted in the church. MUSEUM (www.tourisme92.com / www.mairie-villedavray.fr) Why not treat yourself to a visit to the 4-star hotel here, named after the artist and his beloved lakes, maybe for a spa break, or for a fine meal at the Michelin-starred restaurant (www.etangs-de-corot.com).

24 25 SEQUANA SITE From the mid-19th century, boating became all the rage. In 1857, Monsieur Fournaise, a boat RESTAURANT carpenter, set up his workshop on what would become known as the Impressionists’ Island FOURNAISE at Chatou. Now, the dedicated members of the Sequana Association keep local boating Auguste Renoir lavished praise traditions alive. Enter their workshop to admire on the Maison Fournaise, a collection of boats that is unique in France. describing it as “the prettiest Then let yourself be tempted and take a mini- place on the outskirts of Paris”. cruise on the Seine on an electric boat, Chloë. This open-air riverside inn, © Jarry-Tripelon / CRT Paris IDF © Jarry-Tripelon © Ville de Chatou or guinguette, drew in the crowds, who came to dance and socialise, plus artists in

THE search of vibrant themes to MUSÉE paint. The restaurant here IMPRESSIONIST today has recreated the period atmosphere, notably PROMENADE FOURNAISE the wonderful terrace over the Seine that featured large From Chatou to Croissy-sur-Seine, The Musée Fournaise explores the finest Impressionist in Renoir’s famed canvas, and from Louveciennes to Marly-le- years that Renoir spent in Chatou and along the banks Luncheon of the Boating Party. Roi, discover the landscapes painted of the Seine. Thanks to new technology and immersive Closed for renovation works in 2020. by Renoir, Sisley, Monet and Pissarro presentations, you are taken on a digital journey back by means of 30 reproductions of their into the 19th century, enabling you to meet Renoir paintings placed in the exact spot and the Fournaise family! This show of a trail, for which RESTAURANT FOURNAISE Auguste Renoir, Déjeuner des canotiers , Auguste Renoir, © Bridgeman Images 1880-81, Philips Collection, Washington, 1880-81, Philips Collection, Washington, where the artists set up their easels. Renoir himself provides the commentary, tells you how 3 rue du Bac, 78400 Chatou A detailed map traces out itineraries the artist began to paint, revealing some of his studio Tel: 01 30 71 41 91 www.restaurant-fournaise.fr in places of interest and other ASSOCIATION SEQUANA secrets and taking you to the heart of his art. remarkable sites. 3 rue du Bac, 78400 Chatou Tel: 07 62 44 54 12 MUSÉE FOURNAISE www.sequana.org OFFICE DE TOURISME 3 rue du Bac, 78400 Chatou INTERCOMMUNAL SAINT GERMAIN PARCOURS Tel: 01 34 80 63 22 BOUCLES DE SEINE www.musee-fournaise.com Jardin des arts, 3 rue Henri IV, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye INSPIRING Tel: 01 30 87 20 63 www.seine-saintgermain.fr MOMENTS SITE MUSEUM Opposite the Île des Impressionnistes, At Chatou on the Island of cross the Seine via Chatou Bridge the Impressionists, enjoy a picnic ! to find a bit of Monet’s Giverny, but at Rueil-Malmaison! Here, the Parc beside the Seine and the views that TOP TIP The Luncheon ITINERARY des Impressionnistes reflects Monet’s inspired Renoir to paint of the Boating Party. After a short palette with all its vibrant colours. siesta, take a peaceful stroll beside the river.

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MUSÉE DE LA GRENOUILLÈRE

Between 1855 and 1928 this guinguette attracted Parisians keen on enjoying their leisure time and inspired Renoir and Monet in particular to paint several works. With its collection of paintings, © DR objects and engravings displayed in the setting of a typical Belle Époque riverside inn, the museum Once the residence of the artist, reflects the activities, culture and pleasures the museum is dedicated to the work so beloved of the Impressionists. of Maurice Denis, the painter and theoretician of the Nabi group. MUSÉE DE LA GRENOUILLÈRE In addition to his paintings, the museum © Tourisme Bougival © Tourisme Espace Chanorier exhibits a collection of works by artists 12 Grande Rue, 78290 Croissy-sur-Seine from the Symbolist, Nabi, and Post- Tel: 01 30 53 61 02 MUSEUM Bougival, its river banks and islands attracted Would you like to travel on the Seine www.grenouillere-museum.com Impressionist movements, as well as the Impressionists. Follow the itinerary in the footsteps in a novel way in the footsteps of Monet, by painters from the Pont-Aven School, of Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Renoir and Sisley? Nautic Park in Bougival such as Sérusier, Gauguin and Vuillard. offers a 2-hour trip in an inflatable dinghy In summer, make the most of Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro. It is still possible that will take you to emblematic places to find views these painters saw themselves in like the Île de la Grenouillère, Bougival, the peaceful terraced garden. this charming little town on the banks of the Seine. the Machine at Marly, and the Musée- Closed for renovation work at present; Restaurant Fournaise. Scheduled to reopen in November 2020. Boating, walks, barges berthed by the bank, riverside parties and dances on riverboats bring the scenes to life. NAUTIC PARK MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL Île de la Chaussée, 78380 Bougival INSPIRING Tel: 06 37 22 34 77 MAURICE DENIS OFFICE DE TOURISME DE BOUGIVAL MOMENTS www.nauticpark.com 2 bis, rue Maurice Denis 1 rue du Général Leclerc (entrée quai Clémenceau), Reservations required. 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye bâtiment A, 78380 Bougival From Carrières-sur-Seine, Chatou Tel: 01 39 07 87 87 Tel: 01 39 69 21 23 to Croissy-sur-Seine, take a boat trip www.museemauricedenis.yvelines.fr

www.tourisme-bougival.com and let the river carry you gently along. Aboard the boat, listen to the history ! of the Impressionists over the lapping of TOP TIP the water, watch the flora and wildlife, view the river banks and the monuments up on the hills, circle the islands, enjoy the sunshine from beneath your boater, and wave to the passers-by.

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incent van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. He spent the last 70 days of his life here, proving V extraordinarily productive, painting over 80 canvases. He would die here, in mysterious circumstances. Auvers had already attracted earlier artists, such as Daubigny, Corot and Cézanne. Camille Pissarro focused on Pontoise, while landscape artist Jules Dupré favoured L’Isle-Adam. Our Impressionist Adventures encourage you to discover the Oise Valley, which provided inspiration for the creativity of several generations of artists.

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The spirit of the painter still inhabits the attics of Vincent van Gogh died on 29 July 1890 Vincent van Gogh painted more than 80 paintings the Auberge Ravoux, where he lived during his stay at the Auberge Ravoux and his body was in Auvers-sur-Oise. Explore the streets of the village in Auvers-sur-Oise. In room number 5, which he occupied, buried in the village graveyard. Six months in his footsteps, but also in those of Cézanne, Pissarro, INSPIRING there’s now a tranquil atmosphere to the place where later, his brother Theo also died and Dr Gachet and Daubigny.

MOMENTS his mind was in such turmoil. In the lively dining room, his widow had his remains transferred to Tourist maps and audio-guides are available from the tourist office. enjoy simple but genuine cuisine in the warm Auvers-sur-Oise so that the two brothers OFFICE DE TOURISME AUVERS-SUR-OISE Take a bike tour through Auvers and atmosphere of an artists’ café. could be reunited. The ivy that covers its surrounds to discover the spots the two graves comes from the garden SAUSSERON IMPRESSIONNISTES that Van Gogh immortalised, or AUBERGE RAVOUX of the house that belonged to Dr Gachet. 38 rue du Général de Gaulle, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise follow the Impressionist trail, going Tel: 01 30 36 71 81 by canoe from L’Isle-Adam to Auvers. Place de la Mairie, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise www.tourisme-auverssuroise.fr These adventures will take you off Tel: 01 30 36 60 60 the well-trodden paths! CIMETIÈRE www.maisondevangogh.fr D’AUVERS-SUR-OISE For information and reservations: 09 52 92 52 22 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise valdoise-aventures.paris Entrée libre.

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MUSÉE DE MAISON- L’ ABSINTHE ATELIER To explain the importance of absinthe in the social and cultural life of the 19th century, DAUBIGNY the museum displays a unique Classified as a Historic Monument and authentic collection of the objects and awarded the label “Maison necessary for its ritual consumption, des illustres“, this building preserves as well as drawings, etchings and a genuine 19th century atmosphere. paintings. The aromatic plants required The outstanding painted decoration © Studio Sebert © Le square des photographes © Le square for its manufacture grow in the garden. in this large house-cum-studio was Tastings available. the work of Daubigny and his son, The château boasts a new presentation called The first artist to settle in Auvers-sur-Oise, Charles but also of Corot, Daumier and Oudinot, “Vision Impressionniste, Naissance MUSÉE DE L’ABSINTHE François Daubigny was later joined by a plethora well representing the artistic blossoming that occurred during this period. et Descendance”. The history of Impressionism 44, rue Callé, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise of other artists, such as Vincent van Gogh. Housed is told by the French actor Jacques Gamblin Tel: 01 30 36 83 26 in a manor, the Musée Daubigny pays tribute as you visit eight spaces that make good use www.musee-absinthe.com to the work of this landscape artist and precursor MAISON-ATELIER DAUBIGNY of digital techniques. Don’t miss the county’s of Impressionism. 61 rue Daubigny, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise collection, which in particular includes Claude MUSEUM Tel: 01 30 36 71 81 Monet’s painting The Station at Argenteuil. MUSÉE DAUBIGNY www.atelier-daubigny.com Also to be enjoyed are the elegant gardens, Manoir des Colombières the fountains and the castle park. A gourmet Rue de la Sansonne, break awaits you at Café Le Nymphée 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise Tel: 01 30 36 80 20 (terrace on sunny days). SITE www.museedaubigny.com

CHÂTEAU D’AUVERS INSPIRING INSPIRING Rue de Léry, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise MOMENTS MOMENTS Tel: 01 34 48 48 48 www.chateau-auvers.fr Sit at the foot of the bridge in Auvers Wander through the streets of the village and watch the reflections on the Oise, and admire the places that stimulated an infinite source of inspiration to Van Gogh’s extraordinary creativity. Next, the Impressionists. Perhaps this enchanting continue your trip by following the itinerary setting will induce you to improvise named after him. Enjoy your promenade SITE a picnic beside the river. If not, opt knowing that you are surrounded by for the pleasure of a meal of genuine the places that inspired legendary cooking at the Auberge Ravoux. paintings like Wheatfield with Crows and The Church at Auvers.

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D’ MUSÉE ART ET MAISON D’ - ATELIER HISTOIRE BOGGIO LOUIS SENLECQ © Eric Hesmerg © Xavier Boggio © Oriane Chrétien MAISON DU This home has recently opened L’ DR to the public. Another site labelled “Maison des illustres“, this lovely ISLE- © Musée d’art et d’histoire Louis Senlecq © Musée d’art et d’histoire GACHET property has belonged to the Boggio SITE family for more than a hundred years A doctor, member of scholarly societies, amateur painter and was the house and studio of painter and engraver, Dr Gachet bought his house in Auvers This museum has a fine collection of paintings Émile Boggio from 1910 to 1920. ADAM in 1872. He drew and engraved in the company of by the School of the Banks of the Oise, Xavier Boggio, also a painter Cézanne and Pissarro. At Pissarro’s request, in 1890 A pretty, unspoilt town on the banks of the Oise, including by its best known representative and sculptor, lives and works here he received Vincent van Gogh on his arrival in the town L’Isle-Adam inspired many a landscape painter. Jules Dupré. This friend of Théodore Rousseau surrounded by original works by and took a personal interest in the painter’s well-being. Today, the tourist office puts on guided tours left Barbizon to set up a studio at L’Isle-Adam, his great-uncle. Wishing to maintain Van Gogh immortalised Dr Gachet by painting three and river cruises to enable visitors to learn more where he painted the landscapes of the property in good condition portraits of him. Today the house has been turned into about such artists as Rousseau, Daubigny the Oise valley. and to open it to the public and other a setting for art exhibitions. The house has been labelled or Dupré who captured the area in paint. artists, he welcomes you to visit and a “Maison des illustres“. MUSÉE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE share his art and life. OFFICE DE TOURISME LOUIS SENLECQ DE L’ISLE-ADAM MAISON DU DOCTEUR GACHET 31 grande rue, 95290 L’Isle-Adam MAISON-ATELIER BOGGIO 18 avenue des Écuries de Conti, 78 rue du Docteur Gachet, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise Tel: 01 74 56 11 23 47 rue Emile Boggio, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise 95290 L’Isle-Adam Tel: 01 30 36 81 27 - www.valdoise-tourisme.com musee.ville-isle-adam.fr Tel: 06 10 33 24 71 - [email protected] Tel: 01 34 69 41 99 Free entrance. www.tourisme-isleadam.fr

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L’ AUMÔNE CARRÉ PATRIMOINE ITINERARY © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York © The Metropolitan Le Jardin de la ville de Pontoise Le Jardin Camille Pissarro, © Ville de Pontoise IMPRESSIONIST WALKS MUSÉE MUSEUM © Ville de Saint-Ouen l’Aumône AROUND © Ville de Pontoise PISSARRO A walk in 11 stages but also on both banks PONTOISE Discover Pontoise at the time Opened on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pissarro, of the Oise, in Pontoise as well as Saint-Ouen- of the Impressionists via playful, this recently renovated and enlarged museum pays tribute l’Aumône, where a series of panels gives The Tourist Office organises guided tours innovative presentations. to the Impressionist master who lived in Pontoise between faithful representations of famous paintings of the Hermitage Quarter where Pissarro 1866 and 1868, then once again between 1872 and 1884. created between 1872 and 1908. The panels are lived from 1866 to 1883 and of which over CARRÉ PATRIMOINE It presents works by Camille Pissarro and his five children, 500 canvases were painted by the likes situated in the spots where the painters set up 4 rue Lemercier, 95300 Pontoise and by artists who worked in the area between Pontoise their easels to capture the landscapes of Pissarro, Cézanne and Gauguin. (accès par l’Impasse Tavet) and L’Isle-Adam in the second half of the 19th century: of the banks of the Oise. Tel: 01 34 43 35 77. Daubigny, Guillaumin, Signac, Hayet, Piette, Daumier OFFICE DE TOURISME and Thornley. DE CERGY-PONTOISE SAINT-OUEN-L’AUMÔNE Porte du Vexin, Place de la piscine, 95310 Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône MUSÉE PISSARRO 95300 Pontoise www.ville-saintouenlaumone.fr Telv: 01 34 41 70 60 SITE 17 rue du Château, 95000 Pontoise ot-cergypontoise.fr Tél. : 01 30 38 02 40 www.ville-pontoise.fr

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GIVERNY & ITS SURROUNDINGS © photo RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Stéphane Maréchalle , 1899, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Paris Claude Monet, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, harmonie verte , 1899, Musée d’Orsay, SEE GIVERNY AND EXPERIENCE IMPRESSIONISM IN CLAUDE MONET’S “ EVER SO BEAUTIFUL CORNER OF THE WORLD ”

isiting Giverny, embark on a voyage of the senses as you enter the region of Normandy and the “si beau pays” where V Claude Monet settled in 1883. Monet would spend 43 years in this small village of 300 souls, but above all his time here was marked by the international recognition he received for his series of Water Lilies, Haystacks and Poplars. Exploring the village, experience the sensations that inspired the painter: landscapes changing with the light and wind, explosions of colours, cascades of flowers and glorious reflections. Plunge into this picturesque setting by visiting the artist’s house and gardens, the musée des impressionnismes, and the many galleries that line the village streets. Both Giverny and the surrounding area are marked by the stately presence of the Seine. From Vernon to Les Andelys, passing through Mantes-la-Jolie, this rebellious, impetuous river, resembling the Impressionists themselves, would inspire such artists as Claude Monet, Paul Signac and Maximilien Luce.

© CRT Paris Region Tourist Board / Yasuhiro Ogawa / Yasuhiro Board © CRT Paris Region Tourist 41 FESTIVAL MUSEUM HÔTEL MUSÉE DES BAUDY IMPRESSIONNISMES In 1887, the first painters who would make up the future colony of American artists here GIVERNY came looking for somewhere to stay in the village. Madame Baudy decided to turn her grocery-refreshment room into a hotel-restaurant. Bustling and convivial, it became the setting for animated evenings in the company of such artists as Monet, Renoir, Robinson and Cézanne. More than © Eric sander (8)

18 nationalities settled in FESTIVAL SITE the hotel, which today has become a restaurant. ET Texte trop long This history-filled house is still MAISON JARDINS DE redolent of the Impressionist period. © ADT27, P. Beltram © ADT27, P. CLAUDE MONET Each year the museum puts on two high quality temporary Claude Monet’s house and garden offer an intriguing insight into exhibitions related to the Impressionist movement, its precursors the painter’s family life. With its objects and memories, the house with and its French and foreign heirs. This year, the programme its green shutters is infused with the master’s spirit. It invites you to enter focuses on painting in the open air and the representation into the artist’s daily life thanks in particular to its collection of Japanese of nature, matters the Impressionist painters held dear. prints and the re-creation of the bedrooms. The house is the result The first exhibition entitled “Plein Air, from Corot to Manet” of Monet’s immediate love for Giverny. He got his first glimpse retraces the history of painting outdoors, directly from nature, of the village as he was passing by on a train and immediately from the 18th century through to 1873, the year before the term fell under its charm. Around this pink-rendered house, © L.Vinceslas “Impressionism” was coined. Some 50 works by Eugène Boudin, which he bought in 1890, he found the principal Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Johan Barthold subjects of his paintings. He was so attached ANCIEN HÔTEL BAUDY Jongkind, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet will be displayed. to Giverny that to leave it for any period From 10 July on, attention switches across the Atlantic, with became a terrible wrench. INSPIRING 81 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny the exhibition “The Studio of Nature: 1860-1910”. Almost 90 Tel: 02 32 21 10 03 Several conferences will be staged here MOMENTS Free entry to the rose garden paintings, engravings and photos spanning that period will give in the context of the Normandie Impressionnisme Festival. and the Hôtel Baudy’s Petite Galerie. visitors a broad view MAISON ET JARDINS Enter the bedroom of the master of of how landscape art was treated by American artists. DE CLAUDE MONET Impressionism, place your arms on the window rail and gaze out on the lush garden with MUSÉE DES IMPRESSIONNISMES 84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny its thousands of colours and scents. Outside Tel: 02 32 51 28 21 in the garden, you can do the same thing SITE 99 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny www.fondation-monet.com on the Japanese bridge. Experience Tel: 02 32 51 94 65 / www.mdig.fr the same physical link as Monet with Free entry on the first Sunday of each month. his famous paintings of the lilies in Main galleries closed 29 June to 9 July 2020, but the museum remains open and free his pond, shifting your thoughts from the canvases to your senses to enter, as regards the permanent collection, the garden, shop and restaurant. and back.

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TRAIL s. © Musée de Vernon GUYON e moitié du XX ère 1 , la collégiale de Vernon Earl Butler, Théodore

MUSÉE DE VERNON This discreet, charming museum is housed in a 15th-century private residence and , 1865 Berges à la Roche-Guyon , 1865 Camille Pissarro, Pontoise © Musée Camille Pissarro lies only 5 km from Giverny on the other Devant Maximilien Luce, Madame Bouin à sa toilette , 1901. © Ville de Mantes-la-Jolie bank of the Seine. Its collection includes many Impressionist works by the American MUSEUM Theodore Butler, Blanche Hoschédé- An artists’ trail (counting 14 stops) Monet (the great Monet’s stepdaughter), DE will enable you to discover the pointillist Pierre Bonnard, and MUSÉE how the local landscapes here the Nabis Félix Valloton and Maurice Denis. L’ inspired artists such as Jouanny,

- Eure Tourisme Bestjobers - Eure © Max Coquard, Claude Monet is represented by a tondo Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, - Luce and Braque, and not from his series of Water Lilies. HÔTEL DIEU Until 20 September, the museum invites just Impressionism, but other Also explore this itinerary featuring 20 panels in visitors to explore closely the private This fine arts museum close to the Seine has been entirely art movements too, notably French and English describing the history of creative worlds of the Impressionist artists renovated. It contains the largest collection of works in France Divisionism and Cubism. Giverny and famous people who have marked via an exhibition entitled “Dans l’Atelier”. by the painter Maximilien Luce. An entire floor is dedicated Mairie, 8 Rue du Général Leclerc, its history. Claude Monet, Theodore Butler, Lilla to the artist. An anarchist in spirit, 95780 La Roche-Guyon Cabot Perry and Vaclav Radimsky are some of MUSÉE DE VERNON he settled at Rolleboise in 1917 Tel: 01 34 79 70 55 those illustrious individuals who have wandered and found the peace and [email protected], 12 rue du pont, 27200 Vernon Point d’information touristique La Gabelle through the village and its surroundings in search tranquillity he needed Tel: 02 32 21 28 09 INSPIRING Tel: 09 77 59 47 22 of themes and inspiration. On your walk you will www.vernon27.fr in this place. [email protected] discover the very beautiful Romanesque Church MOMENTS of St Radegonde next to Claude Monet’s last MUSÉE dwelling place before his death on 5 December DE L’HÔTEL-DIEU Enjoy an Impressionist experience off the beaten track. Spend a night in Vétheuil 1926. 1 rue Thiers, FESTIVAL MUSEUM in what was one of the last homes of Claude ITINERARY 78200 Mantes-la-jolie Monet. Let your mind wander and imagine OFFICE DE TOURISME Tel: 01 34 78 86 60 the artist in this history-charged house that NOUVELLE NORMANDIE - GIVERNY www.manteslajolie.fr has been turned into a B&B. For those in a hurry, you can discover the house Parking du Verger, 37 chemin du Roy, 27620 Giverny with a guided tour. Tel: 02 32 51 39 60 - www.nouvelle-normandie-tourisme.fr escale-chez-un-impressionniste.com

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ROUEN & THE SEINE’S MEANDERS , 1894, Claude Monet, La Cathédrale de Rouen, le portail et la tour d’Albane, temps gris , 1894, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen © RMMRN / Beaux-Arts EXPLORE ROUEN, AN OPEN-AIR STUDIO FOR THE IMPRESSIONISTS

ouen and the Seine Valley around it became one vast open- air studio for Impressionism’s most famous painters. Now R enjoy an unforgettable tour of the area in their footsteps. Like Monet, you will be dazzled by the city’s cathedral and the variations in its colours with the changing light. Like Pissarro and Sisley, you will be captivated by the history-packed narrow streets, the magical river and the picturesque villages along its banks. In 1892 and 1893, Claude Monet stayed in Rouen on several occasions. He discovered the city’s artistic potential, in particular that of its cathedral, whose beauty struck him immediately. He found a small room to rent right in front of the building. He was sure it would give him the perfect view. Sitting at its window, Monet painted a series of some 30 pictures of the city’s Notre-Dame Cathedral that are now scattered across the world. During the Post-Impressionist period, a prestigious painting school developed in the city – the Rouen School. It counted among its pupils such renowned artists as Lebourg, Angrand and Delattre, who all took the Seine, with its changing, misty atmosphere, as their favourite subject.

In its beautiful 19th century building, ROUEN Rouen’s fine arts museum holds a great ! collection of works, in particular a large NEWS group of Impressionist paintings. Free of charge, the museum includes major CATHEDRAL works by Claude Monet (such as Rouen Cathedral), Camille Pissarro, Gustave This summer, practically Caillebotte and Alfred Sisley. the whole town of The museum also exhibits several Rouen will be devoted Impressionist works by members to Impressionism. of the Rouen School – Alfred Lebourg, At the Musée de la Charles Angrand, Robert-Antoine Pichon Céramique, Panorama and Joseph Delattre. XXL, the Jardin des Plantes, the Muséum In the context of the Normandie d’Histoire Naturelle, Impressionnisme Festival, the museum the Aître St-Maclou and is putting on an exhibition dedicated even in the streets… art to one of the most important figures and Impressionism will for the Impressionist movement, leave their mark across the Rouen collector François Depeaux, the city! To complete who acquired almost 600 works, some the Impressionist signed by Monet, Renoir and Pissarro. experience, the Tourist A second exhibition will focus on Léon- Office is putting on river Jules Lemaître, a pillar of the Rouen cruises, guided tours © Métropole Rouen Normandie © Métropole Auguste Renoir, En été (Lise ou La bohémienne) © National Galerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Auguste Renoir, School who painted many vibrant urban and even a workshop scenes of an exceptional modernity. based around Impressionist scents! A short distance from Rue du Gros Horloge and Rouen’s historic MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE ROUEN centre stands the majestic cathedral, Gothic in style, completed For those who like a challenging walk, there Esplanade Marcel Duchamp, 76000 Rouen in 1506. Listed as an historic monument in 1862, it houses DES Tel: 02 35 71 28 40 the tombs of the Dukes of Normandy. A fascinating building, will also be fast walking MUSÉE www.mbarouen.fr it inspired Monet to paint numerous virtuoso canvases of it. tours and sporting tours. Free entry to the permanent collections. Now, every evening at nightfall, the cathedral’s façade BEAUX-ARTS transforms into a giant ever-changing series of images, thanks FURTHER INFORMATION DE to the magic of monumental projections. This highly colourful show plunges you into the Impressionists’ world rouentourisme.com and imagination. ROUEN INSPIRING CATHÉDRALE NOTRE-DAME MOMENTS Place de la cathédrale 76000 Rouen FESTIVAL MUSEUM Standing in front of the Impressionist Free of charge. viewing table on top of St Catherine’s Hill, Check times on www.metropole-rouen-normandie.fr with the sun rising behind you, enjoy

Cathédrale de lumière light show every evening, 13 June to 20 September. the misty light over the city of Rouen. The panorama takes in the Seine’s meanders, the bridges and clock-towers of Rouen, and the surroundings of the urban landscape.

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La Couronne, an historic Rouen restaurant going since 1345, has concocted a menu entitled “Saveurs Impressionnistes” (Impressionist Flavours), its clever combination of colours a thrill for the eyes and the tastebuds. @ Denis Darrault

La Seine à Caudebec Binet, La Seine à Caudebec Georges © Coll. MuséoSeine LA COURONNE 31 place du vieux marché, 76000 Rouen Standing graciously beside the Seine, this recently- Tel: 02 35 71 40 90 opened museum tells the story of the great river LA www.lacouronne-rouen.fr as the cradle of Impressionism, the likes of Monet, © SMA76-H.Salah Boudin and Sisley – but also Turner before them – BOUILLE focusing on it. On a guided tour, via reproductions, th observe close up the fascination that these Along the Seine’s meanders and on Normandy’s A calm retreat for the citizens of Rouen during the 19 century, prolific artists felt for the Seine and see how Alabaster Coast, discover several trails dedicated the village of La Bouille became famous for its location along evidently, viewed through Impressionists’ works, to Impressionist themes, linking together the Seine. Its dusky evenings, ships and riverbanks were the Seine changed from the mid-19th century on. emblematic sights where Impressionists set up celebrated by William Turner, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley This summer, Muséoseine presents the works of their easels. Around Rouen, La Bouille, Le Havre, and Albert Lebourg. Today La Bouille still has its ferryboat George Binet (1865-1946). His landscape paintings, Etretat, Fécamp and Dieppe, stop to read and charming towpath. Prolong your enjoyment here with a boat influenced by Impressionism, give such a good the panels dotted along the way. Each panel cruise between Rouen and La Bouille, or even by tackling notion of daily life along the Seine’s riverbanks includes the reproduction of a canvas, where a mystery taking you through the village streets, in his period. it was originally painted, with explanatory texts. discovering clues and stories. Use the QR codes to learn more about each Guided tours and Impressionist workshops can be put on painter and work. ROUEN NORMANDIE for groups of ten or more, by reservation. TOURISME ET CONGRES Further events linked to Impressionism can also be arranged, For further information: INSPIRING such as children’s workshops, conferences or introductions download the brochure ‘’Impressions of Seine-Maritime’’ 25 place de la cathédrale, 76000 Rouen to painting. Please consult the Muséoseine’s programme. on www.seine-maritime-tourisme.com Tel: 02 32 08 32 40 MOMENTS www.rouentourisme.com MUSÉOSEINE From Sahurs, you can take a little ferry over the Seine to La Bouille, following Avenue Winston Churchill in Sisley’s footsteps. Then soak up Caudebec-en-Caux, 76490 Rives-en-Seine the atmosphere of this charming village, Tel: 02 35 95 90 13 ITINERARY looking in at the art galleries along www.museoseine.fr the quay and in the streets beyond. Ferry crossings are free and run

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ncluding the major sites of Le Havre and Honfleur, this area has the power to bring back to life for you a host of fleeting I impressions that the Impressionists managed to capture and celebrate on canvas. Watch the changes in the sky and light dear to Boudin in Honfleur, also strolling by the docks and admiring the breathtaking view from the Côte de Grâce immortalised by the Impressionist painters. Share, almost 150 years on, the experience with Monet of a sunrise over the sea from the wharfs of Le Havre. The expansion of the railways provided the Impressionists with the chance to make Normandy’s hidden corners their theme. Some set up their easels on the coastline. Eugène Boudin advised the young Claude Monet to paint seascapes as, to his eyes, “the sea and its skies are so beautiful”. Thus Monet too glorified Sainte-Adresse. Eugène Boudin employed his talent and mastery of detail to portray Honfleur and Trouville. And Camille Pissarro depicted the bustling port of Le Havre in over 20 paintings.

D’ © Moatti Riviere MUSÉE ART FESTIVAL MUSEUM FESTIVAL ITINERARY LES MODERNE ANDRÉ FRANCISCAINES © Musée A. Canel - Pont-Audemer MALRAUX (MuMa) Les Franciscaines is a new cultural venue opening This museum in Normandy’s It was at Le Havre in 1872 that Claude Monet painted Impression, Sunrise, this summer following major renovation works “Little Venice” displays works the canvas that would give the Impressionist movement its name. The port to transform a former 19th-century convent in sumptuous by Impressionists from Rouen attracted the finest painters of their time, notably Boudin, Monet and Jongkind. fashion. The venue will display a fine collection (Lebourg and Delaunay) and The town museum, the MuMa, has a splendid collection of Impressionist of paintings from the period 1840 to 1940. For this by René Sautin, plus, above all, paintings, with works by Boudin, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and Degas, opening season, an artistic trail on the theme beautiful canvases by the Binet as well as by Courbet and Corot. Constructed in the 1960s, the building of happiness will reveal little-known sides to the works brothers. Bohemian artists, benefits from its transparent and luminous architectural design. of Boudin, Corot, Courbet, Jongkind and Monet, they encountered great success In the context of the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, the exhibition among others. A sensitive view of the Impressionists at the Paris Salon with their realist, “Electric Nights” will focus on the way artists from across will emerge from this exhibition, covering daily life genre scenes. Europe seized on the invention of artificial light to play for these artists as well as their creative processes. In the context of the Normandie with the new metaphorical possibilities To continue on an immersive adventure into the heart Impressionniste Festival, this development allowed in depicting 19th-century of colour, a matter so cherished by the Impressionists, INSPIRING the museum will host works urban landscapes. Among the 150 works on display don’t miss the three high points of the summer, focusing by Malgorzata, a contemporary in this unique exhibition, pieces by Monet, Pissarro, MOMENTS around works by Auguste Renoir, Daniel Buren, Joan artist inspired by the Impressionists’ Bonnard and Van Dongen will feature alongside Mitchell, Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages… plus Claude research and aesthetics. those by many other European artists. Watch the sunrise from the Quai Monet’s private archives. de Southampton in Le Havre and enjoy the marine atmosphere of this estuary port MUSEE A.CANEL MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE that inspired Claude Monet’s famous LES FRANCISCAINES painting Impression, Sunrise. Then, stroll 64.rue de la République ANDRÉ MALRAUX (MuMa) 145B avenue de la République, 14800 Deauville over to Sainte-Adresse beach to look 27500 Pont-Audemer 2 bd Clemenceau, 76600 Le Havre www.lesfranciscaines.fr out to sea and enjoy the comings-and- Tel: 02 32 56 84 81 Tel: 02 35 19 62 62 goings of the cargo ships, yachts and container ships. www.ville-pont-audemer.fr www.muma-lehavre.fr Free of charge. Free entry on the first Sunday of the month.

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Fascinated by the estuary light, Boudin, Courbet, Daubigny and many other artists stayed at the Saint-Siméon Inn, run by Mère Toutain. At the end of the 1850s, this mythical place saw cultural gatherings of Impressionist painters, musicians, poets, etc. Today this famous establishment is a top quality hotel-restaurant. As part of the Normandie Impressionnisme Festival, a series of dinners accompanied by concerts dedicated to Erik Satie’s music will be put on here. Rivage près de Honfleur @ H Brauner - Musee E. Boudin Gustave Courbet, Rivage près FERME SAINT-SIMÉON

® aterrom Fotolia.com ® aterrom HÔTEL-RESTAURANT 20 Rue Adolphe Marais, FESTIVAL MUSEUM 14600 Honfleur Tel: 02 31 81 78 00 & HONFLEUR ITINERARY MUSÉE EUGÈNE ITS PAINTERS FESTIVAL SITE BOUDIN Following on from Turner, numerous other painters, notably locals Boudin and Monet, as well as Jongkind, demonstrated An outing to Honfleur will inevitably take you to the Vieux-Bassin and into how enamoured they were of Honfleur. Wandering around the streets of the St Catherine quarter, made famous by Monet, Jongkind and this port, see how it still resembles a living canvas, its lanes Boudin. To complete the Impressionist experience, make sure you pay a visit lined with picturesque timber-frame and slate-decorated to the museum dedicated to Eugène Boudin. It holds no fewer than houses that seem scarcely to have changed since INSPIRING 100 paintings by this artist, nicknamed the “King of the skies” by Camille the Impressionists’ era. MOMENTS Corot, surrounded by works by Monet, Courbet and Jongkind. A free brochure “Sur les pas des peintres” This summer, the museum will host an exhibition dedicated to Karl Daubigny completes the visit. From Le Havre, cross the estuary via and his father, Charles-François. With around one hundred works on display, the Pont de Normandieth-century and visitatmosphere Trouville. it will celebrate the accomplished use of colour of these artists fascinated OFFICE DE TOURISME D’HONFLEUR Enjoy the late 19 by the effects of ever-changing weather and Normandy’s coasts. as you stroll along the seafront, as seen Quai Lepaulmier, 14600 Honfleur in Monet’s painting The Beach at Trouville. Tel: 02 31 89 23 30 Enjoy the charm of the promenade MUSÉE EUGÈNE BOUDIN www.ot-honfleur.fr and superb seaside villas on which Parisian society descended during Rue de l’Homme de Bois, 14600 Honfleur the Belle Époque. Tel: 02 31 89 54 00 www.musees-honfleur.fr

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ith its majestic cliffs, shingle beaches, extraordinary valleuses (natural depressions in the cliffs) and fishing W villages, the Côte d’Albâtre will reward you with an authentic Impressionist journey. From Dieppe to Étretat, you will fall in love with its delightful landscapes bathed in shifting light, made famous by the Impressionists and almost unaltered since their day. On the initiative of the Duchess of Berry, in 1824 Dieppe transformed itself into a bathing resort. Its charm soon fascinated painters like Turner, Isabey, Courbet, Delacroix, Morisot, Pissarro and Renoir, no less! Fécamp followed suit in 1832 by building a swimming pool and a casino. Its cliffs and seascape attracted another Impressionist in the person of Claude Monet, who would paint more than 100 pictures between Dieppe and Varengeville. Stimulated by the coast’s beauty, the master of Impressionism later became enamoured of another dramatic Norman setting: Étretat. This unique port, with its extraordinary rock formations, also captured the attention of Eugène Boudin and Gustave Courbet, who painted more than fifty views of its coastline and sea.

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In a magical cliff-top location, with unbeatable views With its jagged coastline and cliffs, Constructed on the heights above the town, looking out to sea, Encouraged in his early days of the resort’s famed Needle Rock, the Jardins d’Étretat Fécamp proved a natural base for Dieppe’s 15th-century castle is home to a museum that holds by Manet, Jacques-Émile Blanche offer an enchanting mix of landscaped gardens and outdoor painters. Monet and Berthe several very fine Impressionist works. Paintings by Courbet, who tried his hand at literature, land-art sculptures. Madame Thébault, a famed early- Morisot found plenty of inspiration fell under the charm of a Dieppoise, Jacques-Émile Blanche, music and painting. A talented 20th-century actress and close friend of Claude Monet, here and Eugène Delacroix enjoyed a regular visitor to the resort, and Eva Gonzalès, Manet’s friend portraitist, he turned his home planted the first tree here. The place’s original spirit has several stays at Valmont, not far from and model, are exhibited in the museum, as well as others into a meeting place for men been preserved, but a poetic avant-garde dimension Fécamp. by Renoir, Boudin, Sickert and Pissarro. Eva Gonzalès came and women of letters and art. added. The gardens prove a delight for admirers both to Dieppe during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and depicted The museum boasts a moving In its superbly renovated building topped of Impressionist landscapes and of contemporary art. the town in several works. With Berthe Morisot and Mary collection of works by this prolific by a vertiginous belvedere, or viewing In homage to Madame Thébault’s friend, Monet is Cassatt, she was one of the very small select group of women artist and is situated platform, the Musée des Pêcheries represented here, at his easel, reproducing Étretat’s Impressionist painters. in a charming flower garden, will be devoting space to the works famed natural arch in the cliffs. From 20 June, Dieppe’s museum will put on the first retrospective the Parc floral William Farcy. of Eugène Le Poittevin, a precursor exhibition devoted to Eva Gonzalès, offering an excellent of Impressionism. The exhibition LES JARDINS opportunity to discover the evolution of this unusual artist. MUSÉE JACQUES-ÉMILE dedicated to this artist will demonstrate D’ÉTRETAT BLANCHE how, gathering a large circle of artists CHÂTEAU-MUSÉE DE DIEPPE Avenue Damilaville, around him, he helped ‘create’ Étretat Parc du colombier, 76550 Offranville 76790 Étretat Tel: 02 35 85 19 58 rue de Chastes, 76200 Dieppe Tel: 02 35 27 05 76 as a fashionable seaside resort and Tel: 02 35 06 61 99 etretatgarden.fr INSPIRING a major centre for painting out of doors www.dieppe.fr INSPIRING MOMENTS as the 19th century advanced. MOMENTS MUSEE DES PÊCHERIES MUSEUM Sit on a bench at the foot of the Chapelle In the exceptional setting of a manor Notre-Dame and watch the light of the 3 quai Capitaine Jean Recher, sunset on the cliffs, serenaded by the 76400 Fécamp house set in the heart of the Pays de Caux sound of the waves and gulls. It is easy to area, enjoy the unique experience of going Tel: 02 35 28 31 99 on an Impressionist cookery course. understand why Claude Monet, who was www.ville-fecamp.fr/-Musee- fascinated by this sight, painted more Awaken your tastebuds by creating dishes inspired by Claude Monet’s recipe book. than 50 pictures of it. Étretat is one of Normandy’s legendary places, Cookery classes not to be missed at any cost! ‘Carnet de Cuisine de Monet’ www.normandy-melody.com FESTIVAL MUSEUM

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DRIFT WITH THE IMPRESSIONIST CURRENTS FROM CAEN TO THE COTENTIN

t first sight, the Norman counties of Calvados and La Manche seem to be more linked to the Middle Ages and World War II A than Impressionism. And yet it is in La Manche that Jean-François Millet, the realist painter who led the way for a number of Impressionists, took his first steps as a painter. And it was in Calvados that the family of the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Signac spent several summer holidays. Signac continued his exploration of the region when he spent five years living in Barfleur, nicknamed the “Pearl of the Saire Valley” by the writer Jules Renard. While Rouen was a hotbed of artistic talent, Caen also attracted some fine painters, notably Stanislas Lépine, whose work was included in the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, held in 1874, and who returned to spend his holidays in the city every summer.

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© Musée du Petit Palais, Genève CAEN PORT Housed in the castle, Caen’s museum OF BARFLEUR has a small but high quality collection of Impressionist works. Claude Monet’s It proves a true delight, observing Étretat, Pierre Bonnard’s Portrait the activities in this harbour so dear of Madame Henri, and Gustave to Post-Impressionist painter Paul Signac. Courbet’s Woman with Jewels are

L’aciérie Maximilien Luce, L’aciérie a few of the paintings linked With its adorable granite houses to the Impressionist movement and its location near the tip that have found their home of the Cotentin Peninsula, this little in this historical gem. Note also port has in fact captivated many artists, th

a work by the 20 -century American Gustave Caillebotte, Portraits à la campagne , 1876 Bayeux, MAHB © Mathieu Ferrier painters and writers. As to Signac, artist Joan Mitchell, inspired by he settled here between 1932 and 1935, a certain Claude Monet. living in a house opposite St Nicholas’s This museum offers a veritable journey to the heart of Church, as indicated by a plaque. This summer, in the context European art history. The collections in this splendid Fascinated by the sea, he devoted of the Normandie Impressionnisme episcopal palace give pride of place to the Impressionists. several of his works to Barfleur, Festival, the exhibition “Les Villes INSPIRING Under no circumstance miss the paintings by Boudin and, to the Cotentin and to the Bessin, ardentes – art, travail, révolte, 1879- MOMENTS as of this year, two canvases by Gustave Caillebotte, the last an area a bit to the south. 1914” will provide visitors with a very Portraits in the country and Landscape at Argenteuil. different take on the Impressionists. Share a déjeuner sur l’herbe in the shade These two paintings were given by Caillebotte OFFICE DE TOURISME, of birches and sycamores, feeling like In complete contrast to traditional to his cousin Zoé, who ‘inherited’ the first on 39 rue Saint-Thomas Becket, 50760 Barfleur you’re in the country while in the heart images associated with the movement, the occasion of her wedding in Bayeux. Tel: 02 33 71 99 71 - www.encotentin.fr of the city! Follow that with a siesta the 180 canvases gathered together perfumed by the scent of peonies, for this exhibition will focus on workers’ with perennials and rose bushes as far MUSÉE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE as the eye can see. daily life and industrial unrest in 19th- Vallée des Jardins, BARON GÉRARD century factories, this social upheaval quartier Saint Julien, Caen 37 rue du Bienvenu, 14400 Bayeux www.caenlamer-tourisme.fr SITE depicted, most notably, by Degas, Tel: 02 31 92 14 21 - www.bayeuxmuseum.com Pissarro and Dufy, among others.

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© CDT Manche HENRY This superbly renovated museum contains an exceptional collection of 400 paintings and sculptures from the 15th to the 20th century. Beyond masters MAISON like Fra Angelico, Poussin, David and Signac, it holds the largest provincial NATALE DE collection of works by Jean-François Millet thanks to a bequest by the Ono MILLET © ted007 Fotolia.com family, members of which were painted on several occasions by the artist. Jean-François Millet was born in Gréville-Hague Continue exploring Jean-François Among portraits made by the painter in 1814. From a family of modest farmers, he started Millet’s universe in the open air, of The Angelus to be admired in the his training as an artist in nearby Cherbourg, heading to the places that inspired museum is, for example, the delicate th then settled in Barbizon, near Paris, in 1849. the ultimate painter from La Manche, Portrait of Pauline Ono. Other 19 - He rarely returned to his birthplace, but his works such as Le Castel-Verdon Rock century artists from the Cotentin show the profound impression made on his palette or the end of the village of Gréville- to discover include Armand-Auguste by his childhood spent on the Cotentin Peninsula. Hague and its church. Walking trails Fréret, one of the first landscape artists The visitors’ trail through his childhood home takes are signposted from Millet’s birthplace, to set up his easel on the sites of in original works, ethnographic objects and audio- his Maison Natale. La Hague, Fouace and Buhot. visual displays dedicated to this major artist. One Their works count among the many section is devoted to the extraordinary story behind FURTHER INFORMATION hundreds of paintings and sculptures that make up the collection. his most famous work, The Angelus. Ten original www.encotentin.fr drawings by the artist are also exhibited. In the context of the Normandie Impressionniste Festival, the museum MAISON NATALE DE MILLET will put the spotlight on a handful Hameau de Gruchy of artists, including Eugène Boudin, © D.Sohier, musée Thomas Henry Jean-Frrançois Millet, Portrait de Pauline Ono en déshabillé © D.Sohier, Gréville Hague, 50440 La Hague Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot and Tel: 02 33 01 81 91 INSPIRING Paul Signac, who ventured as far as patrimoine.manche.fr MOMENTS the Cotentin Peninsula to experience artistic journeys in unknown parts! FESTIVAL Waken all five senses in the botanical garden in Vauville, which combines the scents of MUSÉE THOMAS HENRY SITE nature with delights of the palate. After Le Quasar, esplanade de la laïcité admiring the 1000+ species of exotic plants, yield to the temptation of a devilishly 50100 Cherbourg-en Cotentin good local pâtisserie made Tel: 02 33 23 39 30 with apples, Le Grévillais. www.cherbourg.fr Jardin botanique de Vauville www.jardin-vauville.fr

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FROM PARIS TO NORMANDY, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS

utdoor painters by nature, the Impressionists didn’t spend their time wrapped up at home: they preferred O to travel in search of subjects, to go out and about. Whether for just a day or a longer stay, in Normandy, or along the banks of the Seine or the Oise, the Impressionists took advantage of the development of the railways to leave their studios and search for new landscapes and sites to paint directly from nature, outdoors. Tailored and unusual excursions will take you in the footsteps of these artists who revolutionised the history of art so that you can relive their experiences. Whether by train, boat, minibus or bike, à la carte or from a set list, a wide choice exists to bring you moments of pleasure. Make the most of the many inspiring tours, discoveries and encounters on offer.

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IMPRESSIONIST PROVIDED TOURS BY NORMANDY MELODY © CRT IDF/Tripelon-Jarry @ Denis Darrault To feel the sea-spray on your face at Etretat, Leave for Giverny where you will discover FROM THE to breathe in the heady perfume of Claude the house and studio of Claude Monet, as well PARIS TO SEA Monet’s wisteria at Giverny, to marvel at Rouen’s as his garden and the famous Japanese bridge. LA Notre-Dame Cathedral, to touch the ears of wheat Then visit the Musée des Impressionnismes just like those Vincent van Gogh painted at Auvers in Giverny before lunch. In the afternoon, SEINE À sur Oise, to listen to a tune on an accordion head for Auvers-sur-Oise for a guided tour VÉLO in Montmartre, to experience unique moments of the village where Van Gogh spent the last From June 2020, 520 km of cycle route will enable cyclists to ride from Paris to Le Havre following in the footsteps of the Impressionists 70 days of his life painting some of his best-loved following the Seine’s meanders, and even to continue on to Deauville. A capital river, on a personalised tour led by an accredited canvases. Also visit his bedroom in the Auberge of central importance to France, the Seine has inspired numerous artists, including lecturer. Ravoux. many Impressionists, of course, but also the likes of writers Victor Hugo and Guy Guided tours, cookery classes creating dishes de Maupassant. Cycling beside it allows you to take in a whole range of different ALSO, A VISIT TO THE MUSÉE D’ORSAY inspired by Claude Monet’s recipe book, AND GIVERNY WITH AN AUDIO-GUIDE landscapes; bucolic sections alternate with urban stretches and places marked by their excursions, stays. For small groups or wholly industrial heritage. For those who enjoy following in the footsteps of the Impressionists, private excursions. After a visit with audio-guide the route takes you through many places where the Impressionist legacy is still very to the Musée d’Orsay, leave for Giverny tangible: Paris, Vétheuil, La Frette-sur-Seine, Chatou, Croissy-sur-Seine, Vernon, Giverny, NORMANDY MELODY in a coach to discover Monet’s house Rouen, Rives-en-Seine, Honfleur, Deauville and Le Havre. It’s an experience to relish, and magnificent garden. www.normandy-melody.com allowing you to immerse yourself in Impressionist lands. www.pariscityvision.com FURTHER INFORMATION www.laseineavelo.fr

70 71 FESTIVAL NORMANDIE IMPRESSIONNISTE DIARY FESTIVAL Until 6 September, Normandie Impressionniste 2020 invites you to experience “La Couleur au jour le jour” (or Colour Day to Day), following the theme dreamt up La couleur au jour le jour by Philippe Piguet, the festival’s general curator. COLLOQUE VOYAGES EN TERRE INCONNUE : Multi-disciplinary in nature, this edition will put « COLLECTIONNER L’IMPRESSIONNISME » BOUDIN, RENOIR, SIGNAC… EN COTENTIN to the fore creativity in all its forms and will feature all 25 and 26 June 2020 Until 6 September 2020 03.04 — 06.09 manner of events across the Normandy region. 2020 www. normandie- Auditorium H2O, Rouen Musée Thomas Henry, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin impressionniste.fr Paul Signac (1836-1935), Le phare de Gatteville, huile sur carton, v. 1934, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, musée Thomas Henry Including Impressionist exhibitions, contemporary art, PLEIN AIR, DE COROT À MONET FRANÇOIS DEPEAUX, photography, live shows, music, conferences… come Until 28 June 2020 L’HOMME AUX 600 TABLEAUX Until 6 September 2020 and enjoy the amazing vitality of Normandy’s Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny Until 7 September 2020 www.normandie-impressionniste.fr artistic scene. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen CÉZANNE & THE MASTER PAINTERS. A DREAM OF ITALY L’HERBIER SECRET DE GIVERNY. Until 5 July 2020 CLAUDE MONET ET JEAN-PIERRE Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris HOSCHEDÉ EN HERBORISTES Until 7 September 2020 TURNER, PEINTURES GEORGES MANZANA-PISSARRO - VOYAGES EN MÉDITERRANÉE, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Rouen ET AQUARELLES DE LA TATE LES MILLE NUITS ET UNE NUIT MONET, RENOIR, CHAGALL Until 20 September 2020 Until 31 December 2020 Until 20 July 2020 DANS L’ATELIER Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Until 7 September 2020 Musée Pissarro, Pontoise Atelier des lumières, Paris Musée de Vernon GABRIELLE, MODÈLE PRÉFÉRÉ DE RENOIR ÉVA GONZALÈS. HENRI, JEANNE, LES CARNETS DE LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Until mid-August 2020 LES VILLES ARDENTES. EDOUARD L’ART ENSEMBLE ENTRE PARIS ET LA CÔTE NORMANDE, 20 June to 27 September 2020 Musée de la Grenouillère, Croissy-sur-Seine ART, TRAVAIL, RÉVOLTE. 1870–1914 DESSINS, AQUARELLES, CRAYONS Until 20 September 2020 Musée de Dieppe DE COULEUR, ENCRES NICOLAS TARKHOFF, IMPRESSIONS 3 October 2020 to 10 January 2021 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen D’UN PEINTRE RUSSE DE PARIS À ORSAY MUSÉE EN PLEIN AIR SISLEY Until November 2020 Musée Pissarro, Pontoise Until 23 August 2020 ELECTRIC NIGHTS Musée de l’Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie Until 20 September 2020 Moret-sur-Loing LE THÉÂTRE DES ÉMOTIONS 10 September 2020 to 17 January 2021 MuMa, Musée d’art moderne DE COROT À BRAQUE, INVITATION À LA COLLECTION TERRA André Malraux, Le Havre 10 July to 1 November 2020 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris PARCOURS D’UNE COLLECTION Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny Until 6 September 2020 PAUL DURAND-RUEL COLLECTION MOROZOV 13 October 2020 to 31 August 2021 Musée Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise ET LE POST-IMPRESSIONNISME FRANK BOGGS Until 20 September 2020 Fondation Vuitton, Paris DE L’AUBE AU CRÉPUSCULE, EN MARGE DE L’IMPRESSIONNISME Propriété Caillebotte, Yerres 19 September to 18 December 2020 COULEUR IMPRESSIONNISTE Musée d’art et d’histoire de Meudon Until 6 September 2020 LES ARTISANS DE LA COULEUR At the time this brochure was going to press, Musée de Louviers, Louviers Until 20 September 2020 RENOIR IMPRESSIONNISTE, the global health situation remained highly uncertain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Lô L’EXPÉRIENCE IMMERSIVE putting into question some of the practical information L’INVENTION D’ETRETAT. contained here. Please, before planning any trip, Until 31 December 2020 EUGÈNE LE POITTEVIN ET SES AMIS LES COULEURS DE LA MER. may we strongly advise that you check Musée Fournaise, Chatou the relevant websites of the places mentioned À L’AUBE IMPRESSIONNISTE CHARLES-FRANÇOIS (1817-1878) ET KARL here and the websites of the Normandy Until 6 September 2020 (1846-1886) DAUBIGNY EN NORMANDIE and Paris region Tourist Boards: Musée des Pêcheries, Fécamp Until 20 September 2020 en.normandie-tourisme.fr Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur visitparisregion.com/en

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