Giverny - Haute-Normandie, France
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N 49° 04.523 E 001° 32.029
31U E 392923 N 5436870
C'est dans cette magnifique maison de Giverny que le peintre Claude Monet a passé les 43 dernières années de sa vie.
Waymark Code: WMBQ8Z
Location: Normandie, France
Date Posted: 06/12/2011
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Claude Monet (Paris 1840 – Giverny 1926), was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Monet noticed the village of Giverny while looking out of a train window. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house in the area surrounding it. In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint.
Some of his most famous paintings, such as his water lily and Japanese bridge paintings, were of his garden in Giverny.
Monet lived in Giverny from 1883 until his death in 1926.
He and many members of his family are interred in the village cemetery.
His home, garden and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir, to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 1966.
Through the Foundation Claude Monet, the house and gardens were opened for visit in 1980, following restoration. In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life, the house contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints.
The house is one of the two main attractions of Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world.
Price list :
Adults 8 €
Children under 12 years old and students 5 €
Children under 7 years old free
Disabled 4 €
Source: Wikipedia (
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