PRESS KIT - Musée Jacquemart
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PRESS KIT - Musée Jacquemart
PRESS KIT Contents Introduction by Bruno Monnier, President of Culturespaces Press release Itinerary of the exhibition The curators Excerpts from the exhibition catalogue Hubert Le Gall, scenographer Visitor information tools The partners The patron of the exhibition The Musée Jacquemart-André The Institut de France Culturespaces, producer and director of the exhibition Visuals available for the press Practical information Claude Monet (1840-1926) La Rue de l’Épicerie à Rouen Around 1892 93 x 53 cm, oil on canvas Collection particulière. Courtesy Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny (Suisse) © Claude Mercier photographe Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 3 Introduction by bruno monnier, president of culturespaces Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Avant-port de Dieppe, après-midi, soleil, 1902 53,5 x 65 cm, oil on canvas Dieppe, Château-Musée © Ville de Dieppe - B. Legros Following the exhibition devoted to the Caillebotte brothers in 2011, and Eugène Boudin in 2013, the Musée Jacquemart-André is once again delighted to welcome the masterpieces of the Impressionist Masters, which provide us with a pertinent account of the era in which Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart lived. This exhibition is the first to privilege a broader chronology of the pictorial revolution that was Impressionism, through the history of the decisive encounters, exchanges and discussions on a free and experimental approach to painting in the Normandy region. I would firstly like to express my gratitude to Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, a specialist on Pissarro, and to Jacques-Sylvain Klein, co-founder of the Normandie Impressioniste Festival. Their expertise and rigorous approach have resulted in the selection of some forty exceptional works coming from prestigious international institutions, as well as a dozen or so loans very generously donated from private collectors. Their extensive knowledge of the subject will provide visitors with an insight into the importance of artists such as Richard Parkes Bonington, Barthold Jonkind, Eva Gonzalès, Charles Pécrus, Charles Angrand and Louis Anquetin in the development of open-air landscape painting. I sincerely hope that this carefully designed, intelligent and detailed exhibition will transport each of our visitors to the winding roads of the Normandy coastline, revealing the artistic concerns of an era turned towards modernity, yet nevertheless dubious of new forms of expression. I encourage them to discover the fate of these artists, who in their quest for the perfect picture would scour the lush and verdant countryside, climb sheer cliffs and explore sandy or pebbly beaches in all weather conditions, with little regard for the tides, their easel under their arm. I would like to extend my warm thanks to Mr Laurent Fabius, president of the Constitutional Council, vice-president and longstanding friend of the festival Normandie Impressioniste, who along with Jacques-Sylvain Klein approached us with the aim of establishing a fruitful and mutually rewarding collaboration within the context of this springtime exhibition. Finally, I would especially like to thank Mr Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, honorary curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André, who has played an important role in this project. Bruno Monnier CEO and Founder of Culturespaces Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 5 press release Claude Monet Etretat, la porte d’Aval, bateaux de pêche sortant du port, around 1885 60 x 80 cm, oil on canvas Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts © Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon Photo François Jay THE OPEN-AIR STUDIO The Impressionists in Normandy 18 March - 25 July 2016 This spring, the Musée Jacquemart-André is proud to present an ensemble of some fifty or so prestigious artworks—from both private collections and major American and European museums—that retrace the history of Impressionism, from the forefathers of the movement to the Great Masters. The 19th century saw the emergence of a new pictorial genre: ‘plein-air’ or outdoor landscape painting. This pictorial revolution, born in England, would spread to the continent in the 1820s and over the course of a century, Normandy would become the preferred destination of many avant-garde painters. The region’s stunning and diverse landscapes, coupled with the wealth of its architectural heritage, had much to please artists. Furthermore, the growing fashion for sea-bathing attracted many wealthy individuals and families who could easily access Normandy by either boat or stage-coach, and later by train. Its popularity was also increased due to its enviable location—halfway between London and Paris, the two art capitals of the period. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, British landscape artists such as Turner, Bonington, and Cotman travelled to Normandy, with their boxes of watercolours, while the French—Géricault, Delacroix, Isabey—made their way to London to discover the English school. From these exchanges, a French landscape school was born, with Corot and Huet at the helm. In their wake, another generation of painters would in turn explore the region (Delacroix, Riesener, Daubigny, Millet, Jongkind, Isabey, Troyon), inventing a new aesthetic. This artistic revolution truly began to take form at the beginning of the 1860s, the fruit of lively discussions and exchanges at the Saint-Siméon Farm in Honfleur on Normandy’s Flower Coast, increasingly popular with the crème de la crème of this new school of painting. These included Boudin, Monet and Jongkind—an inseparable trio—but also their friends: Courbet, Daubigny, Bazille, Whistler, and Cals... And of course, Baudelaire, who was the first to celebrate in 1859, the ‘meteorological beauties’ of Boudin’s paintings. Not far away, in the hedgerows and woodlands of the Normandy countryside, Degas painted his first horse races at Haras-du-Pin and Berthe Morisot took up landscape painting, while at Cherbourg, Manet would revolutionize seascapes. For several decades, Normandy would be the preferred outdoor or ‘plein-air’ studio of the Impressionists. Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Boudin, Morisot, Caillebotte, Gonzales, and Gauguin would all experiment with their art here in a constant quest for originality and innovation. The aim of this exhibition is to evoke the decisive role played by Normandy in the emergence of the Impressionist movement, through exchanges between French and British landscape painters, the development of a school of nature and the encounters between artists at Saint-Siméon. From a historical to a geographic approach, the exhibition then shows how the Normandy landscape, especially the quality of its light, were critical in the attraction that the region had on the Great Impressionist Masters. itinerary of the exhibition William Turner (1775-1851) Lillebonne, 1823 Watercolour, gouache, brown and black ink 13,4 x 18,5 cm Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum. Presented by John Ruskin, 1861 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) L’Embouchure de la Seine also known as Vue prise des hauteurs de Honfleur, 1859 43,5 x 65 cm, oil on canvas Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts © RMN-Grand Palais / Jacques Quecq d’Henripret room 1 The Open-Air Studio The Impressionists in Normandy For a long time, the history of Impressionism has been understood as having a relatively short chronology, beginning in 1863 with the Salon des Refusés and ending in 1886 with the 8th Exposition Impressioniste. This approach assigned a crucial role to Paris and the Île-de-France region but very little to other areas of France and to foreign influences. Research carried out over the past thirty or so years has led us to reconsider the history of the movement and to situate it within a longer time frame which puts the origins or roots of Impressionism at the beginning of the 1820s. This new approach also underlines the influence of the English School in the birth of a French Landscape School and assigns Normandy a decisive role in the emergence of the Impressionist movement (Turner, La Seine près de Tancarville et Lillebonne, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). Several factors may explain why Normandy was the birthplace of Impressionism : • its geographical location, half-way between London and Paris, the two artistic epicentres of the time (Courbet, L’Embouchure de la Seine also known as Vue prise des hauteurs de Honfleur, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille). • the region’s rich architectural heritage at a time when artists played an active role in its preservation and promotion (Corot, Jumièges, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton) ; in 1820 Isidore Taylor published his Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France, with the first two volumes devoted to Normandy. In 1825, Victor Hugo published an essay on the preservation of French patrimonial monuments entitled Guerre aux démolisseurs. • the fashion for sea-bathing, imported from England, which became popular in Dieppe circa 1820, before spreading along the Channel coastline. • the beauty and diversity of the region’s landscapes, as well as the subtlety and versatility of the light, in an era when landscape painting became a genre in its own right and when painters began to leave their studios to paint nature as they saw it, outdoors and in natural light (Monet, La Charrette. Route sous la neige à Honfleur avec la ferme Saint-Siméon, Musée d’Orsay, Paris). • ease of access by river and later by train. Railway lines between Paris and the Normandy coast were amongst the first to be created, facilitating the growing popularity of seaside resorts. Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 7 Rooms 2 & 3 Beaches, leisure and society life The coastline was traditionally the preserve or domain of fishermen. This was where they unloaded their cargo or mended their nets, or where their wives would wash laundry or collect shellfish (Boudin, Marée basse à Trouville, pêcheurs de crevettes, Association Peindre en Normandie, Caen). With the fashion for sea-bathing, the coastline was transformed into a beach, a place now shared between the workers of the sea and summer holidaymakers at seaside resorts (Monet, Sur les planches de Trouville, hôtel des Roches noires, collection particulière). On the one hand, there existed a working class that was increasingly sidelined, and on the other hand, an aristocracy and upper middle class who came to the Normandy coast to take advantage of the fresh air and seabathing, with a social life akin to the capital’s. Hence the creation of promenades (the famous wooden boardwalks in Trouville and Deauville); race tracks (Degas, Course de gentlemen. Avant le départ, Musée d’Orsay, Paris); bandstands where concerts were held; casinos for betting, and attending operettas or plays. Soon tennis clubs based on the English model would open up all along the coast. All of these venues were places of conviviality and a means of social segregation. Under the Second Empire (1852 – 1870), a period of industrialization during which many families amassed large fortunes, the concept of summer holidays became hugely popular. New seaside resorts sprung up all along the Flower Coast (Côte Fleurie) between Deauville and Cabourg. The emergence of a ‘lifestyle of leisure’ chronicled by the painters of the time was a godsend to many artists who had previously struggled to sell their ‘seascapes’ and who could now command high prices for their ‘beach scenes’. This genre, invented by Eugène Boudin in 1862 would be imitated by all of his Impressionist friends (Boudin, Crinolines à Trouville, collection particulière). Claude Monet (1840-1926) Sur les planches de Trouville, hôtel des Roches noires, détail 1870 50 x 70 cm, oil on canvas Collection particulière © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images the exhibition continued Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Le Port de Dieppe, around 1885 60,2 x 72,3 cm, oil on canvas Manchester, Royaume-Uni, Manchester City Galleries © Manchester Art Gallery, UK / Bridgeman Images room 4 From ports to cliffs - Dieppe The coastline of the English Channel, with its tumultuous tides and impressive storms, had long inspired a romantic vision of the sea, as skilfully depicted in the work of both Eugène Isabey and William Turner. However as seaside resorts grew, painters devoted themselves to a new vision of their marine environment. They became less interested in the sea itself and more in its natural and human environment (Pissarro, Avant-port de Dieppe, aprèsmidi, soleil, Château-Musée de Dieppe). With its ports teeming with boats, stretching from Tréport to the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, and its sheer cliffs, where the whiteness of the chalk contrasted with the verdant grass covering, the Channel coastline offered an infinite variety of subjects and motifs to be painted (Gauguin, Le Port de Dieppe, Manchester City Galleries). Dieppe, which was the first seaside resort to be created in the 1820s, attracted many of the leading figures of this new style of painting (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Boudin, Pissarro and Gauguin) following the War of 1870, as well as artists Blanche, Gervex and Helleu, referred to as ‘society painters’ (one should of course pay little heed to such artificial classifications). It also attracted other unclassifiable artists like Eva Gonzalès, Manet’s only student and last but not least, a large number of Anglo-Saxon artists Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 9 Claude Monet (1840-1926) Falaises à Varengeville also known as Petit-Ailly, Varengeville, plein soleil,1897 64 x 91,5 cm, oil on canvas Le Havre, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux © MuMa Le Havre / Charles Maslard 2016 room 5 From ports to cliffs - The Alabaster Coast For artists in search of subject matter to paint, Normandy’s Alabaster Coast provided plenty of examples of stunning natural architecture: immense panoramas, a rugged coastline of estuaries and valleys, and huge white chalk cliffs, eroded by the sea and the wind. Maupassant would compare the natural cliff arches of Manneport d’Étretat to an ‘enormous cave through which a ship with all its sails unfurled could pass’ and the Porte d’Amont to ‘the huge figure of an elephant’s trunk plunged into the waves’. But above all what Courbet, Monet, Renoir and Berthe Morisot sought in this section of the coast were the incredible chromatic variations of the sea and the sky, connected to the ebb and flow of the tides, the passing wind and the clouds, and the sea spray. These continuous atmospheric changes were for them a powerful stimulus to work quickly, without getting too bogged down in detail, so as to be able to render the smallest nuances in the light (Monet, Falaises à Varengeville also known as Petit-Ailly, Varengeville, plein soleil, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre). The central place given to the treatment of the light would bring Courbet, in 1869, to experiment with the process of making series of paintings, depicting for example the cliffs at Étretat in different light (Courbet, La Falaise d’Étretat, Van der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal). In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet would also use this process, painting numerous depictions of cliffs, from those at Petites-Dalles in Fécamp to ones at Étretat, Varengeville, Porville and Dieppe (Monet, Étretat. La Porte d’Aval, bateaux de pêche sortant du port, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon). the exhibition continued Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) La Plage des Petites-Dalles, around 1873 24,1 x 50,2 cm, oil on canvas Richmond, Virginie, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/Katherine Wetzel room 6 The railroad Towards the middle of the century a new means of transport appeared: the train, which would completely revolutionize travel. Railway lines between Paris and the Normandy coast were amongst the first to be created. The Paris-Rouen line was opened in 1843, extended to Le Havre in 1847, to Dieppe the following year, and in 1856 to Fécamp. In the 1860s, trains stopped at Deauville-Trouville and all the other seaside resorts along the Flower Coast. In their advertising campaigns, railroad companies highlighted the fact that travellers could reach the coast in two to three hours. There were even special trains running for certain events, such as the naval battles of the American Civil War fought off the coast of Cherbourg, attended by Manet in 1864. The train was not only used by Parisian artists (Morisot, Degas, Manet, Caillebotte, etc.) seeking to leave the capital and to soak up the fresh sea air at the coast in their quest for new subject matter to paint. It was also used by painters from Normandy (Boudin, Monet, Dubourg, Lépine, Lebourg, etc.) who travelled to Paris to exhibit their work at the Salon, visiting exhibitions, meeting with fellow artists, as well as art dealers and collectors during their stay. Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 11 Claude Monet (1840-1926) Barques de pêche, Honfleur, around 1866 46 x 55 cm, oil on canvs Collection particulière © Collection particulière Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) L’Entrée du port de Cherbourg, around 1871 41,91 x 56,2 cm, oil on canvas New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929, L.H.D.H. 1967 © Photo courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery room 7 From ports to cliffs - From Le Havre to Cherbourg Like the Alabaster Coast, the ports and coastline stretching from Le Havre to Cherbourg would equally captivate Boudin, Monet and Pissarro, as well as Berthe Morisot, Degas, Signac, Seurat and many other landscape artists. Amongst them, was a practically unknown painter: Charles Pécrus, converted by his friend Boudin to the art of landscape painting and whose very lively port scenes would owe a lot to Boudin’s influence (Pécrus, Le Port de Honfleur, Association Peindre en Normandie, Caen). Towards the end of his life, Boudin would adopt an even brighter palette and an even bolder and freer brushstroke. Pursuing his passionate quest for light, he would focus on the shimmering reflections of the water, the vibrations of the air, and the clouds as they raced across an enormous sky (Entrée du port du Havre par grand vent, Collection particulière, Courtesy Galerie de la Présidence, Paris). This sensitive, delicate art is completely removed from the vigorous representations—heralding the Expressionist and Fauvist movements—which Monet, at the beginning of his career, would produce of fishing boats moored in the port of Honfleur (Barques de pêche, collection particulière, et Bateaux de pêche, Muzeul National de Arta al României, Bucarest). To capture the comings and goings of the boats and the strollers, Pissarro and Berthe Morisot preferred to make use of slightly plunging perspectives, from an elevated viewing point. Berthe was especially interested in the effects of perspective, which she skilfully mastered (L’Entrée du port de Cherbourg, Yale University Art Gallery), while Pissarro attempted to capture the passage of time and atmospheric variations, delivering a superb series of port views of Le Havre which form part of his artistic legacy (L’Anse des Pilotes et le briselames est, Le Havre, aprèsmidi, temps ensoleillé, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre). the exhibition continued Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) Le Pont Boieldieu, Rouen, effet de pluie,1896 73 x 92 cm, oil on canvas Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Image Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) La Seine près de Rouen, 1892 79 x 69 cm, oil on canvas Collection particulière © Collection particulière / Tom Haartsen room 8 Along the Seine, from Rouen to Giverny If throughout the course of the 19th century, Rouen attracted so many landscape painters from Turner, Boninton and Corot to Monet and Pissarro, it was because of the town’s remarkable architectural heritage. Rouen was celebrated by Victor Hugo as the ‘city of a hundred bell towers’ and was immortalized by Monet (La Rue de l’Épicerie à Rouen, Collection particulière, courtesy of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny). The destination was made even more attractive due to its topography, which Flaubert compared to an amphitheatre. Nestled between the river and the surrounding hills, the town not only offered ‘the most splendid landscape that a painter could ever dream of’ (Pissarro) but above all, the effects of fog and rain and the constant atmospheric variations proved to be a source of great pleasure to all those in search of the ephemeral. The liveliness of the port and its industrial landscape, where the tall factory chimneys on the left bank echoed the bell towers on the right bank, would draw Pissarro to make this enthusiastic comparison: ‘It’s as beautiful as Venice’ (Le Pont Boieldieu, Rouen, effet de pluie, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, room 7). Many of the Impressionist masters (Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Gauguin) would stay in Rouen. This, coupled with the presence of several important collectors (François Depeaux, Léon Monet, Eugène Murer) would favour the birth of a Rouen School to cite the expression of art critic, Arsène Alexandre. Monet in Giverny Claude Monet lived for 43 years in his house in Giverny from 1883 to 1926. Passionate about gardening, he designed his gardens as veritable paintings. In 1893, he put in a pond which he had covered with lily pads and created a Japanese-style garden ‘for the pleasure of the eye but also with the intention of providing subject matter for painting’. Until his death, his garden proved to be his most fertile source of inspiration. Indeed, he once said : ‘My most beautiful masterpiece is my garden’. Monet began painting waterlilies in 1895 and his Japanese bridge would be the object of some fifty canvases. Taking out the horizon and the sky, he narrowed his focus on the bridge, the water and the reflections. From 1918 onwards, the pictorial elements or details would give way to an explosion of colours, with the density of the brushstrokes bordering on abstraction. The water and the sky seem to merge and under these fireworks of colour, the bridge appears little by little, providing a landmark or a point of reference to the composition. As Daniel Wildenstein, author of the catalogue raisonné of the artist, would say, the exceptional series of the Pont japonais represents the culmination of Monet’s oeuvre where the vibration of the colour is enough to evoke a world of sensation and powerful emotion (Pont japonais, Collection Larock-Granoff, Paris). Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 13 the curators Art historian, and an authority on Camille Pissarro, CLAIRE DURAND-RUEL SNOLLAERTS researched and wrote the catalogue raisonné of the artist. She was the co-curator of the following exhibitions : Les Impressionnistes en privé at the Musée Marmottan Monet in 2014, Pissarro dans les Ports : Rouen, Dieppe, Le Havre at the MUMA, Le Havre in 2013, and Berthe Morisot at the Musée Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen in 2012. She is the author of the following works : Pissarro, Patriarche des Impressionnistes published by Découvertes Gallimard (2013), Camille Pissarro Rouen, Peindre la ville published by Point de Vues, Paul Durand-Ruel, Le marchand des impressionnistes published by Découvertes Gallimard (2014) and Les Impressionistes, Loisirs et Mondanités published by Editions Des Falaises (2016). Art historian, JACQUES-SYLVAIN KLEIN has published numerous works, including : La Normandie, berceau de l’impressionnisme (1996) published by Editions OuestFrance and Lumières normandes, les hauts-lieux de l’Impressionnisme (2013) published by Point de vues. His latest work L’Impressionnisme se lève en Normandie 1820-1886, published in 2016 by Editions Ouest-France. He contributed to the film Le Scandale impressioniste (RMN / Arte) as historical advisor and was the general curator of the first edition of the festival Normandie Impressioniste in 2010. PIERRE CURIE is chief curator of heritage. Specialist of Italian and Spanish painting of the XVIIth century, he also worked on the French painting of the XIXth century at the Musée du Petit Palais, where he started his career. Then in charge of the painting at the General Inventory, he has co-authored and led the Vocabulaire typologique et technique de la peinture et du dessin (published in 2009). Appointed head of the painting sector of the restoration department of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des Musées de France in 2007, he coordinated and followed some major restorations of paintings of the national museums (Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Rembrandt, Poussin ... ). Currently director of the Revue de l’Art, Pierre Curie is curator of the Musée Jacquemart-André since January 2016. excerpts from the exhibition catalogue NORMANDY,THE CRADLE OF IMPRESSIONISM By Jacques-Sylvain Klein, curator • THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENGLISH AVANT-GARDE • THE GROWING FASHION FOR SEA-BATHING English landscape painters travelled the length and breadth of the region and would have a significant influence on their French peers. Turner visited Normandy on five occasions between 1821 and 1845, bringing back with him a multitude of sketches and watercolours, which he then used for his etchings and well-known compositions. Crossing the Channel in reverse, Géricault, Delacroix, and Isabey set off to discover this English avant-garde that so fascinated them, to the extent that within the space of a decade or so, a trip to London had replaced the artist’s traditional voyage to Rome. Back in France, they became vocal advocates of a form of landscape art which the English had elevated to a genre in its own right. In the 1820s, Normandy witnessed the growing fashion for sea-bathing, begun in Brighton in 1750. Dieppe became France’s first seaside resort after the Duchesse de Berry started the fad for sea-bathing here. Seaside resorts of the day were popular places with socialites and the elite, where one came to swim and breathe the clean sea air, as well as to attend glittering social occasions. This fashion soon spread throughout the Alabaster Coast : Fécamp, Étretat, Veules-les-Roses, extending across the Seine to Honfleur and Trouville. Across the Channel • THE WEALTH OF THE NORMANDY HERITAGE A heritage under threat The 1820s were marked by the large-scale rediscovery of France’s architectural heritage, which the previous centuries had left in a poor state of neglect. Victor Hugo and Isidore Taylor played an important role in drawing attention to the deteriorating conditions of many medieval monuments and buildings, which had been much maligned through the use of terms such as ‘barbarian’ or ‘Gothic’. Some of the best artists, engravers and lithographers of the period, including Géricault, Bonington and Isabey would go on to produce one of the most significant testimonies of the spirit of Romanticism. • THE EMERGENCE OF PLEIN-AIR PAINTING Normandy’s appeal For those artists in search of new motifs and impressions, Normandy was an idyllic spot, with its 550 km of coastline, rich variety of landscapes and its stunning natural beauty. It also boasted lively ports and fashionable bathing resorts, Gothic churches and medieval castles. Perhaps yet another reason for the region’s strong appeal were the infinite atmospheric variations, caused by the tide and the wind, perfectly accentuating the contrast in colours between the chalk cliffs, stony valleys and lush green meadows, as well as the constantly changing hues of the sky, clouds and the sea. In addition to all of these elements was the omnipresence of water, surging in waves on the shores of the English Channel, or flowing along the serpentine bends of the Seine. The beginning of leisure pursuits Circa 1860, even more fashionable resorts were created in Deauville, Houlgate, and Cabourg, boasting casinos, bathhouses, theatres and racetracks. Drawn by the mild climate and sandy beaches, the English played an important role in the growing popularity of these seaside resorts, building Anglo-Norman style villas along the coast, where they would spend much of the summer. For them, Normandy had the same appeal as the French Riviera would have for their descendants. The presence of a cosmopolitan and wealthy population on the Normandy coast attracted many artists. Eugène Boudin, who lived in Honfleur in conditions of extreme poverty, followed Isabey’s advice to paint beach scenes, a genre that quickly proved profitable and which would inspire many other painters, including Monet, Degas and Manet. • EASE OF ACCESS BETWEEN LONDON AND PARIS By boat and later by train If Normandy proved so popular with painters, it was because it was a crossing point between England and France, located between two artistic epicentres of the time: London and Paris. Artists crossed the Channel, via shipping lines from Dieppe to Brighton, or Southampton to Le Havre. By the middle of the century, the proliferation of railroads would revolutionize travel. Railway lines between Paris and the Normandy coast were amongst the first to be created. The Paris-Rouen line was opened in 1843, and extended to Le Havre in 1847, to Dieppe the following year, and in 1856 to Fécamp. (excerpts from the exhibition catalogue) Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 15 THE HISTORY OF IMPRESSIONISM : THE HISTORY OF MEN AND WOMEN By Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, curator • THE AVANT-GARDE ON THE NORMANDY COAST Towards Impressionism Dieppe, Honfleur, Le Havre, Trouville-Deauville, Étretat, Rouen and many other Normandy seaside towns are symbolic of a particular and intense period of creation in the history of painting, and of the growing movement of plein-air landscape painting. All of the Impressionists, without exception, went to Normandy to paint at different moments in their lives and careers. In the 1820s, a large group of artists gathered here, exchanging ideas, working together and above all, honing their style. They were the future Impressionists, united in their desire to break away from tradition. This was the birth of the avant-garde on the Normandy coast. • SAINT-SIMÉON FARM IN HONFLEUR A charming location for many artists Honfleur holds a special place in the attraction of the Normandy coast for painters. Thanks in part to the reputation of a certain inn: the Saint Siméon farm, and hostess, mother Toutain. Opened in 1825, on the road from Honfleur to Villerville, for a long time this farm attracted a clientele of sailors. It gradually became a guest house for artists, writers, and musicians, making Saint-Siméon an epicentre of artistic creation. From 1854 onward, Eugène Boudin made a habit of crossing the Seine estuary to stay in this peaceful and bucolic location, ‘40 francs a month, bed and board’, he wrote. Here he would rub shoulders with a string of painters such as Corot, Jongking, Courbet and Monet. • EUGÈNE BOUDIN, AN INFLUENTIAL PAINTER IN LE HAVRE The most famous Normandy artist from the 19th century Born in 1824, the son of a sailor, and an eternal lover of the sea and its coastline, Boudin would devote all of his life to this pictorial subject, and the Normandy coast in particular. At twelve years of age, his father placed him in a papermaker-frame maker’s for an apprenticeship. At this early age, his passion for drawing was already beginning to emerge. At twenty, he founded his own paper mill, where he exhibited his first attempts. Over the course of his encounters, Boudin became the fulcrum, or point of connection between the Romantic painters—the so-called masters of the 1830s—and the future Impressionists. • THREE IMPRESSIONISTS IN ROUEN Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin The largest river port in France, in the 19th century Rouen was also famous for the beauty of its landscapes and its rich architectural heritage. Monet was the first to paint views of the Seine, in 1872 and 1873 during visits with his brother Léon. Following Monet’s advice, Pissarro visited in 1883, in search of new motifs. This first visit was a pictorial shock. He would return on three occasions, painting series depicting the passage of boats from the vantage point of his hotel window, fascinated by the atmospheric variations. Gauguin, following in the footsteps of his master Pissarro, spent most of 1884 in Rouen. He looked beyond the river and the city centre, to focus his gaze on the surrounding countryside. In Rouen, as in Le Havre, Honfleur, Trouville, Dieppe, etc., the artists, united by bonds of friendship, would often share tips and recommendations about locations and sites. For example, they would meet up in Honfleur, or they would stay there at different periods, as in Rouen. They knew each other’s work intimately, influenced each other, but never copied, each interpreting the landscape according to his personality. All of these Impressionist stays would set in motion a dynamic that would continue into the next generation. (excerpts from the exhibition catalogue) hubert le gall , scenographer Hubert Le Gall designed the scenography for this exhibition as a promenade in the footsteps of the Impressionist painters in Normandy, playing upon the subtlety of colours and making use of photographic enlargements. Hubert Le Gall, born in 1961, is a French designer, creator and sculptor of contemporary art. He was elected “Creator of the year” at Maison & Objet 2012. His work has formed the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since 2000 he has produced original scenographies for exhibitions, including : 2015 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Florence, Portraits at the Court of the Medicis 2015 – Hôtel de Caumont Centre d’Art, Aix-en-Provence – Canaletto, Rome - London - Venice 2015 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – From Giotto to Caravaggio, the passions of Roberto Longhi 2015 – Musée d’Orsay, Paris – Pierre Bonnard. Painting Arcadia 2015 – Musée du Luxembourg, Paris – The Tudors 2014 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Perugino, Master of Raphael 2014 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – From Watteau to Fragonard, les fêtes galantes 2013 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Désirs & Volupté, Victorian Masterpieces Collection Pérez Simón 2013 – Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris – Frida Khalo / Diego Rivera. Art in fusion 2013 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Eugène Boudin 2013 – Musée d’Orsay, Paris – Masculine / Masculine. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day. 2012 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Canaletto – Guardi, the two masters of Venice 2012 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – The Twilight of the Pharaohs 2012 – Musée Maillol, Paris – Artemisia 2011 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light 2011 – Musée Maillol, Paris – Pompeii, an art of living 2011 – Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris – The Caillebotte brothers’ private world. Painter and photographer 2011 – Musée Maillol, Paris – Miró sculpteur 2011 – Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris – Odilon Redon, prince of dream 2011 – Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris – Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio 17 visitor information tools GUIDED VISIT ON IPHONE / IPAD AND ANDROID This application, available in both French and English, provides a video presentation of the exhibition, including a special focus on some twenty artworks, as well as practical information allowing visitors to make the most of the exhibition. The varied content (video, audio, images) and smooth Cover Flow navigation make this app an indispensable tool for an in-depth tour of the exhibition. The high-definition iPad version allows users to observe the artworks in detail thanks to its exceptional zoom depth. The app can be downloaded on-site and does not require a 3G connection thanks to the Wi-Fi access exclusively devoted to downloads from the Apple App Store or Google Play. This on-site download is also available to users of an iPod Touch, as well as foreign visitors at no extra cost to their data roaming charges. The application costs €1.99 for the low resolution version and €3.99 for the HD version. AUDIO GUIDE An audio guide presenting a selection of major works is available in both French and English, at a cost of €3. FOR YOUNGER VISITORS: GAMES-BOOKLET Provided free of charge to our younger visitors (aged 7-12 years), this booklet serves as a guide, allowing children to experience and enjoy the exhibition through a variety of fun games and puzzles. THE CATALOGUE A beautifully illustrated 192-page catalogue, published by Culturespaces and the Fonds Mercator, presents the ensemble of works on display as part of the exhibition The Open-Air Studio. Written by the curators of the exhibition, the introductory essays and notes provide a new insight into the important role played by Normandy in the emergence of the Impressionist movement. On sale in the bookstore-gift shop of the Musée Jacquemart-André for €32 and online at http://boutique-culturespaces.com SPECIAL EDITION ISSUE OF CONNAISSANCE DES ARTS This special edition issue of Connaissance des Arts evokes the early stages of the Impressionist movement in Normandy, as well as the sudden birth and popularity of seaside holidays. With special features on the major works of the exhibition, it highlights some of the preferred themes of the Impressionist painters when painting in the open-air. On sale in the bookstore-gift shop of the Musée Jacquemart-André for €9.50 and online at http://boutique-culturespaces.com Étretat Dans tOus ses États La BaLLaDe Des POrts nOrmanDs page 4 page 8 PrOust au GranD HôteL De CaBOurG Le journal de l’expo 5€ page 13 Musée Jacquemart-André • Du 18 mars au 25 juillet 2016 Collection particulière © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images Une si longue énigme… CLauDe mOnet Sur les planches de Trouville, Hôtel des Roches noires, 1870, huile sur toile, 50 x 70 cm l’atelier en plein air Les impressionnistes en Normandie S’ancrant dans un temps long qui remonte jusqu’au début du XIXe siècle, l’exposition montre combien la genèse du mouvement pictural a été étroitement liée à la région, de Cherbourg au Tréport, de Honfleur à Giverny. Sans la Normandie, aurions-nous eu le même impressionnisme ? Q u’est-ce que la Normandie vers 1850 ? Une province qui a perdu de sa grandeur. Rouen n’est plus la seconde ville de France, son port est hautement concurrencé par celui du Havre. En ce début de XIXe siècle, les peintres anglais William Turner et Richard Parkes Bonington, en quête de motifs pittoresques, les peintres romantiques français, Eugène Delacroix, Léon Riesener, s’intéressent aux ruines normandes de Jumièges, aux villes anciennes comme Honfleur ou Le Havre. Sous le Second Empire, la Normandie devient à la mode grâce à l’avènement du chemin de fer et à la vogue des pratiques balnéaires. Oubliée la mer mangeuse d’hommes… Dès les années 1850, Dieppe, Granville, Cabourg, Houlgate, Trouville puis Deauville sous l’impulsion du duc de Morny, beau-frère de l’Empereur, attirent une clientèle parisienne et internationale avec leurs grands hôtels et leurs casinos à quelques heures de Paris. La côte normande devient le point de ralliement des premiers vacanciers et des riches oisifs. Les loisirs se développent aussi côté Seine, avec la mode des activités nautiques, comme les régates de canots ou de voiliers et les flâneries sur l’eau. Les impressionnistes, Caillebotte en tête, qui pratique l’aviron avec passion, vont s’emparer de ces thèmes. Ils adoptent la Normandie. Grâce à l’invention du tube de couleur et du chevalet portatif, répète-t-on à l’envie… Oui, enfin peindre en plein air, sur le motif, bien sûr. Mais il y a aussi cette lumière transparente et changeante, qui faisait dire à Monet qu’une séance de peinture là-bas en Normandie, où, jeune, il suivait déjà son maître Boudin sur le littoral, ne pouvait excéder sept minutes. Vent, nuages, reflets fugaces… Sur la Seine, dans son bateau atelier, inspiré par Daubigny qui possédait une embar- cation de ce type, il peint au ras de l’eau. L’impressionniste porte un regard neuf sur le paysage, s’autorise liberté d’improvisation, notation rapide, presque aussi immédiate qu’une prise de vue photographique. Il retranscrit les effets de la nature dans une vision subjective, douée de sensations changeantes, de couleurs aux vibrations inconnues. C’est la lumière qui attire et retient les peintres en Normandie. Seurat se rend sur la côte pour « se laver l’œil des jours d’atelier ». Dans la décennie 1870, Monet et Pissarro connaissent des années difficiles ; le loyer en région parisienne est trop élevé. Cette école du plein air a bien du mal à se faire accepter en dépit du soutien inconditionnel du marchand Durand-Ruel. Ces « tachistes » s’installent à la campagne, beaucoup moins coûteuse, où ils pourront donner libre cours à leur passion du paysage. Monet a vécu enfant au Havre, Pissarro, qui vit à Pontoise, prend pied dans un hôtel de Rouen pour peindre une architecture métallique à trois arches reliant le quai de Paris au quai Saint-Sever, disparue dans les bombardements de 1940. Surtout, il représente les quais débordant d’activité, la foule, les bateaux à vapeur, et, au loin, les silhouettes des usines textiles. Les impressionnistes ne se cantonnent pas aux ciels agités ou aux petites fleurs ; la vie industrielle qui se développe le long de la Seine ou dans les ports les fascine. La vie réelle. Les collectionneurs normands ? Quelques-uns vont les aider : les riches armateurs du Havre, les bourgeois de Rouen comme François Depeaux, qui a fait fortune dans le charbon, le pâtissier Eugène Mürer, propriétaire d’un grand hôtel. Monet, en son sanctuaire de Giverny, mourra entouré de vénération et l’impressionnisme deviendra le plus célèbre mouvement de l’art moderne… Claude pommereau C’est un mystère sur lequel on ne cesse de s’interroger, un siècle et demi plus tard : comment l’impressionnisme, sauvagement brocardé par les critiques de l’époque, a-t-il fini par devenir le mouvement artistique le plus populaire au monde ? De l’amérique profonde (dès 1886, l’american art association l’applaudissait) à l’exotique Japon, il touche de manière universelle. Peut-être parce qu’il place au cœur de sa pratique l’émotion simple devant la nature, l’émerveillement devant les jeux de la lumière, du vent et de l’eau. une honnêteté, une sincérité – mais aussi une religion ou une mystique ! – qui peuvent être comprises partout. L’exposition les met bien en relief en décrivant les balbutiements de l’impressionnisme. Petits tableaux brossés dans les embruns et les éclairages mouillés du littoral, qui conservent parfois quelques grains de sable dans leur pâte épaisse… même si loin des débuts, on peut encore faire des découvertes intéressantes, préciser la topographie – confirmer que ce Dieppe de Berthe morisot est en fait un Cherbourg ! – ou accrocher côte à côte deux tableaux de barques honfleuroises par monet – ce qui n’avait pas été fait depuis… 1866 ! À n’en pas douter, il faut une dose d’empathie, de passion pour se plonger dans l’impressionnisme alors qu’on croit tout en connaître, s’en aller dénicher des tableaux cachés dans des collections privées ou des musées des antipodes. Les deux commissaires en sont dotés. Jacques-sylvain Klein a été le créateur en 2010 du festival normandie impressionniste. Quant à Claire Durand-ruel, elle descend en droite ligne du plus grand marchand des impressionnistes. Bon sang ne saurait mentir… rafael pic THE EXHIBITION JOURNAL – BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE As the ‘exhibition journal’, Beaux Arts Magazine focuses on the lively dialogue or exchange between French and British artists at the time, and its role in the genesis of the Impressionist movement. The magazine also examines the birth of tourism in Normandy. Special features spotlight the sources of inspiration of the Impressionists and allow readers to rediscover several major Normandy painters. SOMMaire 1. naissance d’une école L’impressionnisme, une histoire anglo-normande pOrtFOliOS Étretat, l’aiguille dans tous ses états Le littoral, les lumières normandes 2. Découverte d’un territoire La ballade des ports 2 4 6 8 plein CaDre Régates à Trouville, de Gustave Caillebotte 10 3. loisirs & mondanités Bains de mer, la nouvelle vogue 12 pOrtFOliOS Ombrelles, promenades & belles toilettes 14 Boudin, roi de la plage 16 4. le retour des petits maîtres Des impressionnistes oubliés 18 5. analyse d’œuvre Baignade à Étretat d’Eugène Le Poittevin 20 1 On sale in the bookstore-gift shop of the Musée Jacquemart-André for €5 and online at http://boutique-culturespaces.com THE EXHIBITION BROCHURE Available in the entrance area of the Museum, this brochure allows visitors to make the most of their visit by following the exhibition step by step. A general presentation is provided on the themes and works on display in each room. On sale at the Museum ticket desk for €1 the partners Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 19 the patron of the exhibition Crédit du Nord would like to thank Culturespaces and especially its president Bruno Monnier, for their trust in us as sponsors of the exhibition The Open-Air Studio - The Impressionists in Normandy. Crédit du Nord is delighted to once again lend its support to Culturespaces, a longstanding partner, with whom we have forged ties based on our respective professional expertise and the value we both place on human relations. The arrival of spring always fills us with a desire for fresh air, open spaces, beautiful nature. Thanks to this magnificent exhibition, the Musée Jacquemart-André takes us on a journey to a Normandy accentuated by flashes of colour and the unique light of the Impressionist painters. This artistic movement, a veritable pictorial revolution at the time, echoes the indispensable sense of innovation that any company must demonstrate in order to adapt to new and changing environments. Without the courage of our teams, we would not be able to keep abreast of the major evolutions and changes of our age. Philippe Aymerich General Director of the Crédit du Nord Group © C. Recoura the musée jacquemart - andré Owned by the Institut de France, the Musée Jacquemart-André has been developed and managed by Culturespaces since 1996. The Musée Jacquemart-André, the home of collectors from the late 19th century, offers the public, in this temple of art, numerous works of art bearing the most famous signatures of : • • • Italian Renaissance art : Della Robbia, Bellini, Mantegna, Uccello, etc. Flemish painting : Rembrandt, Hals, Ruysdaël, etc. French painting of the 18th century: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Vigée-Lebrun, etc. together with significant items of furniture, indicative of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart’s taste for the decorative arts. This collection, unique in terms of both its quality and the diversity of the works it contains, boasts exceptional visitor facilities which makes it accessible to everyone. With more than 2 million visitors since it reopened in March 1996, the Musée Jacquemart-André is one of the top museums in Paris.The André mansion very quickly became the Jacquemart-André mansion, so great was the role which Nélie Jacquemart was able to play in its evolution and development. This mansion and its collections appear today as the legacy which this wealthy and childless couple, who dedicated their lives to the finest aspects of art, wished to leave to posterity. The beneficiary of this asset, the Institut de France, has since strived to ensure that Nélie Jacquemart’s wishes are respected and to introduce her lovingly compiled collections to as many people as possible. Today there are fifteen magnificent exhibition rooms, the most intimate of reception rooms, still exquisitely decorated, occupying almost 1,000 m², which are open to visitors to the Musée Jacquemart- André. The restoration and renovation work undertaken in 1996, with a view to reopening to the public, was intended to make, as far as possible, the mansion feel like a home, so that visitors would find themselves surrounded by the warmth of a living, welcoming, rather than educational, setting. Art, the lifeblood of Édouard and Nélie André, enabled this pair of collectors to gather, in just a few decades, almost 5,000 works, many of which are of exceptional quality. To satisfy their eclectic tastes, the Andrés were able, with rigour and determination, to call on the greatest antiques dealers and traders, travel the world in search of rare objects, spend considerable sums of money on masterpieces, sacrifice second-rate pieces - and sometimes even return them to the seller - in order to be true to their criteria of excellence, which makes the Jacquemart-André mansion a top international museum. Like the Frick Collection in New York, the Musée Jacquemart-André combines presenting an exceptional 19th century collectors’ house with visitor facilities which meet the expectations of people today. www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 21 the institut de france Created in 1795 in order to contribute on a non-profit basis to the renown of the Arts, Sciences and Humanities, the Institute de France (French Institute) groups together five academies: the French Academy, the Academy of inscriptions & belles-lettres, the Academy of sciences, Academy of fine arts and the Academy of moral & political sciences. At the same time, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions practicing philanthropy and administering donations and legacies. For two centuries, it has housed foundations and awarded prizes that play an unparalleled role in modern philanthropy. Created by individuals or companies, the Institute’s foundations and prizes benefit from the experience of this secular institution in the areas of sponsorship and philanthropy, as well as from the proficiency of academicians in their fields of expertise. The Institute also owns an important artistic heritage, consisting of residences and exceptional collections of that have been bequeathed to it since the late 19th century; in particular: the Château de Chantilly, the Musée Jacquemart-André, the Abbey de Chaalis, the chateau de Langeais, the manoir de Kerazan as well as the villa Kérylos. www.institut-de-france.fr culturespaces , producer and director of the exhibition Culturespaces produces and manages, with an ethical and professional approach, monuments, museums and prestigious historic sites entrusted to it by public bodies and local authorities. These include the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris and Musée Maillol in Paris, the Ephrussi de Rothschild on the French Riviera, the Roman Theatre of Orange, the Château des Baux-de-Provence, the Carrières de Lumières, the Nîmes Arena, the National Automobile in Mulhouse... It is thanks to these management methods, approved by AFNOR, that Culturespaces has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for the quality of the services it provides and its successful management of cultural heritage. Culturespaces welcomes thus more than 2,5 millions visitors each year. In 20 years, in close collaboration with curators and art historians, Culturespaces has organised many temporary exhibitions of international standing in Paris and in the regions. Culturespaces manages the whole chain of production for each exhibition, in close collaboration with the public owner, the curator and the exhibition sponsor: programming, loans, transport, insurance, set design, communications, partnership and sponsorship, catalogues and spin-off products. Today Culturespaces works with some of the most prestigious national and international museums in the world. Recent exhibitions organised at the Musée Jacquemart-André : Recent exhibitions organised at the Musée Jacquemart-André : 2015 Florence, Portraits at the Court of the Medicis 2015 From Giotto to Caravaggio, the passions of Roberto Longhi 2014 Pietro Perugino, Master of Raphael 2014 From Watteau to Fragonard, les fêtes galantes 2013 Désirs & Volupté, Victorian masterpieces from the Perez Simon collection 2013 Eugène Boudin 2012 Canaletto – Guardi, the two Masters of Venice 2012 The Twilight of the Pharaohs 2011 Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light 2011 The Caillebotte brothers’ private world. Painter and photographer 2010 Rubens, Poussin and 17th century artists 2010 From El Greco to Dalí. The great Spanish masters. The Pérez Simón collection 2009 Bruegel, Memling, Van Eyck… The Brukenthal Collection 2009 The Italian Primitives. Masterpieces of the Altenbourg Collection 2008 Van Dyck 2007 Fragonard 2006 The Thracians’ Gold www.culturespaces.com Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 23 visuals available for the press 1 2 3 5 4 6 1 I RENOIR Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Côte près de Dieppe - 1879 - Oil on canvas - 49,5 x 60,6 cm Montclair, New Jersey, Kasser Mochary Foundation © Photo Tim Fuller © Kasser Mochary Foundation, Montclair, NJ 2 I CAILLEBOTTE Gustave (1848-1894) Régates en mer à Trouville - 1884 - 60,3 x 73 cm - Oil on canvas - Toledo, Ohio. Lent by the Toledo Museum of Art. Gift of The Wildenstein Foundation © Photograph Incorporated, Toledo 3 I MONET Claude (1840-1926) Etretat, la porte d’Aval, bateaux de pêche sortant du port - around 1885 - Oil on canvas - 60 x 80 cm - Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts © Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon. Photo François Jay 4 I RENOIR Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Cueillette des moules - 1879 - Oil on canvas - 54,2 x 65,4 cm - Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art. Gift of Margaret Seligman Lewisohn in memory of her husband, Sam A. Lewisohn © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington 5 I GAUGUIN Paul (1848-1903) Le Port de Dieppe - around 1885 - Oil on canvas - 60,2 x 72,3 cm - Manchester, Royaume-Uni, Manchester City Galleries © Manchester Art Gallery, UK / Bridgeman Images 6 I SIGNAC Paul (1863-1935) Port-en-Bessin. Le Catel - around 1884 - Oil on canvas - 45 x 65 - Collection particulière © Collection particulière visuals available for the press 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 I CALS Félix (1810-1880) Honfleur, Saint-Siméon -1879 - Oil on canvas - 35 x 54 cm - Caen, Association Peindre en Normandie © Association Peindre en Normandie 8 I BOUDIN Eugène-Louis (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville - 1869 - 28 x 40 cm - Oil on panel - Collection particulière. Courtesy Galerie de la Présidence, Paris © Galerie de la Présidence, Paris 9 I MONET Claude (1840-1926) Camille sur la plage à Trouville - 1870 - Oil on canvas - 38,1 x 46,4 cm - New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Collection of Mr. and Mrs John Hay Whitney, B.A. 1926, Hon. 1956 © Photo courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery 10 I PISSARRO Camille (1830-1903) Avant-port de Dieppe, après-midi, soleil - 1902 - Oil on canvas - 53,5 x 65 cm Dieppe, Château-Musée © Ville de Dieppe - B. Legros 11 I MONET Claude (1840-1926) L’Église de Varengeville à contre-jour - 1882 - Oil on canvas - 65 x 81,3 cm - Birmingham, The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham © The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham 12 I BONINGTON Richard Parkes (1802-1828) Plage de sable en Normandie - around 1825-1826 - Oil on canvas - 38,7 × 54 cm - Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Bedford (The Higgins Bedford) © Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford Press Kit I The Open-Air Studio I 25 visuals available for the press . 13 14 15 16 17 18 13 I MONET Claude (1840-1926) Falaises à Varengeville also known as Petit-Ailly, Varengeville, plein soleil - 1897 - Oil on canvas - 64 x 91,5 cm - Le Havre, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux © MuMa Le Havre / Charles Maslard 2016 14 I BOUDIN Eugène-Louis (1824-1898) Entrée du port du Havre par grand vent - 1889 - Oil on canvas - 46 x 55 cm - Collection particulière. Courtesy Galerie de la Présidence, Paris © Galerie de la Présidence 15 I COURBET Gustave (1819-1877) La Plage à Trouville - around 1865 - Oil on canvas - 34 x 41 cm - Caen, Association Peindre en Normandie © Association Peindre en Normandie 16 I MONET Claude (1840-1926) La Rue de l’Épicerie à Rouen - around 1892 - Oil on canvas - 93 x 53 cm - Collection particulière. Courtesy Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny (Suisse) © Claude Mercier photographe 17 I ANQUETIN Louis (1861-1932) La Seine près de Rouen - 1892 - Oil on canvas - 79 x 69 cm - Collection particulière © Collection particulière / Tom Haartsen 18 I MORISOT Berthe (1841-1895) La Plage des Petites-Dalles - around 1873 - Oil on canvas - 24,1 x 50,2 cm Richmond, Virginie, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/Katherine Wetzel practical information Address Musée Jacquemart-André 158 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris Website www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com Access Metro : Saint-Augustin, Miromesnil or Saint-Philippe du Roule Train (RER) : Charles de Gaulle-Étoile Bus : 22, 43, 52, 54, 28, 80, 83, 84, 93 Opening Times Open 365 days a year from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Late night opening on Mondays until 8.30 pm during exhibitions. 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