The village
Giverny, a village of artists
Between the Seine and the Epte, a Normandy village that became a name in the history of art.
The setting
A place, a light
The village clings to the north slope of a wide valley, open onto meadows and poplars. Water makes the mist, the mist undoes the outlines: it was this light the painters came for, and it kept them.
The colony
From 1886, and in earnest from 1887, the village filled each summer with painters, most of them from America. They lodged here, worked here, hung their canvases here. The First World War scattered all of it.
Today
The places themselves remained: Claude Monet’s house and gardens, the musée des impressionnismes, the church of Sainte-Radegonde, and the former Hôtel Baudy.
81 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny
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- Former Hôtel Baudy
Restaurant Baudy today - Claude Monet’s house and gardens
Fondation Claude Monet - Church of Sainte-Radegonde
Village of Giverny - Musée des impressionnismes Giverny
Rue Claude Monet - Parking Verger
Free parking, a short walk from the house - Parking Les Jardins de Claude Monet
Free, a little further, takes coaches
