The Impressionist Museum in Giverny, in Eure, manages to get off the beaten track by taking the path of the English Channel, the Atlantic and the French Riviera. Monet's retina captures this almost supernatural quality of the light of the first morning of the world.

The National Gallery in Washington, in the United States, has lent the small Eure museum another major painting by the artist, the soft blues and greens of “Cliffs at Pourville”