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Castle Bizy
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A.G. Poulain museum
“Open to the public in 1883, the municipal museum is named
after a learned local archaeologist who donated his
collection in 1927.
The origins of the museum are older : in 1862, Mr. de
Brecourt’s heirs offered the town a large collection of 2000
stuffed birds as well as various objects. Oriented to fine
arts, then to archaeology with A.G. Poulain, the museum
suffered several removals, and then bombings in June 1940.
Considerable restoration and converting works have been
since, carried out.
The Museum displays paintings by Claude Monet and
impressionist artists of Giverny : Fairchild MacMonnies,
Butler, Richardson, Dawson-Watson, Radimsky and also works
by Bonnard, the Nabis and other French landscape painters.
The Vernon Museum is also specialised in Animal Art,
displaying works by Pompon, Bugatti, Barye and contemporary
artists.
The Museum offers four to six temporary exhibitions a year.”
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The museum
American art
In Giverny
Les
Andelys
Château-Gaillard
Richard Cœur-de-Lion
Roche Guyon castle |
Fondation
Claude Monet
www.fondation-monet.com
www.vernon27.fr/musee
www.maag.org/musee/lemusee.html
A few miles
you can
visit such as :
Rouen,
Evreux
La vallée
de l'Eure
La vallée
de la Seine
La Roche
Guyon
Les
Andelys
And many
other activities
To discover
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Claude Monet’s property at Giverny, left by his son
to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1966 has, after completion
of large-scale restoration work, become the Claude Monet
Foundation, inaugurated in 1980.
The house, with its pink crushed brick façade, where the
leader of the Impressionist School lived from 1883 to 1926,
once again has its colourful décor and intimate charm of
former times. The precious collection of Japanese
engravings is displayed in several rooms, hund in the manner
chosen by the master of Giverny himself. The huge Nymphéas
studio, a stone’s throw from the house, has also been
restored. It contains the Foundation’s Shop. The gardens
have been replanted as they once were and offer for the
admiration of visitors “the painting from nature” which
Claude Monet’s contemporaries considered one of his
masterpieces.
The rectangular Clos Normand, with archways of climbing
plants entwined around brilliantly coloured shrubs, lies
before the house and studios, offering from Spring to Autumn
the palette of varying colours of the painter-gardener who
was “ecstatic about flowers”.
Lastly, the Water Garden, formed by a tributary of the Epte,
lies further away, shaded by weeping willows. With its
famous Japanese Bridge, its wisterias, azaleas and its pond,
it have once more become that casket of sky and water which
inspired the pictoral universe of the water lilies.”
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House and
Garden
of
Claude Monet
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