*Prices do not include the entrance ticket to the Monet Foundation gardens.
Objective:
Immerse yourself in the daily life of the painter Claude Monet through his family life and steadfast friends to better understand the pinnacle of Impressionist painting, inseparable from the creation of the gardens, especially the water lily pond, for the owner of the pink house in Giverny.
Program
Take a stroll in Monet's gardens, accompanied by Blanche, his stepdaughter, who will reveal the backstage of the creation of the first garden and then the water garden, through the eventful life of this Impressionist artist, sometimes struggling with bailiffs, sometimes basking in glory. In parallel, the small number of friends who will ring the big green gate and who will bear names like Clémenceau, Mirbeau, Renoir, Zola, Degas, Guitry, etc., will form the soil that allows this giant of color, both a painter and a gardener, to bloom.
Get to Know Your Guide/Character:
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet is Monet's favorite stepdaughter. A painter herself, she is one of the few people who could accompany Claude during his outdoor painting sessions. With this complicity, she loves to recount family anecdotes as well as the incredible horticultural discoveries of "Papa Monet," as she fondly calls him, to embellish and paint his masterpiece.
In front of “café des nymphéas”, Giverny
Normandy garden, water garden, painter's house, and his/her workshops.
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