Cézanne 2025: a feast for the eyes!

Normandy is renowned for its beaches stretching for miles, specialties rich in butter, and a range of pastel shades that have inspired many an Impressionist painter in every season. This year, the fifth edition of the Normandie Impressionniste festival will showcase the region’s stunning scenery from March 22 to September 22, 2024. Here is a three-day getaway along this coast, cherished by Monet and his followers!

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For centuries, the Côte d'Azur has fascinated generations of painters, drawn like butterflies by its famous light. And every corner of this illustrious coastline remembers the great masters of colour who came here to set up their easels. Every town in the region has its own painter.

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France was a great source of inspiration for the world-famous artist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Van Gogh worked as an art dealer in Paris, painted his most famous works in Arles and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, in the south of France, and died in Auvers-sur-Oise. Here's a look at the different places where the famous painter left his mark!

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To paint in the open air, to grasp the colours of the time passing by, to capture on canvas the moods of the sky, the reflections of water, the rays of the sun and to represent nature with naturalness, this was the principle of the Impressionists. Normandy inspired them and will impress you... Follow the guide.

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Picasso, Bonnard, Matisse, Chagall and Renoir... the Côte d’Azur inspired a great many artists. All succumbed to the beauty of its landscapes, the mildness of its climate and the light bathing its coast and hinterland, its seaside resorts and hilltop villages. No wonder, then, that the Côte d’Azur is home to so many museums and cultural spots bursting with works, always embracing the blue of the sky and the Mediterranean.

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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of impressionism, meet at dawn in Le Havre, where it all began, to admire the light that reflects on the water from the docks. This is where Monet painted Impression, Sunrise in 1872. We then cross the estuary of the Seine to reach Honfleur and Deauville on the footsteps of Boudin, Courbet and other impressionist painters.

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