Cleomes (white), rudbeckias (yellow with a green heart) and ageratums (blue) still open in the middle of summer in the garden of the Musée des Impressionnismes, in Giverny. So many new colors on the already rich palette of Mother Nature, this goddess who was a muse of painters for a long time… In the Belle Époque and until before the Second World War, artists and aesthetes had to have a garden almost as much as a workshop or library. They saw it as a place that was all the more inspiring because they could arrange the elements themselves.
“Telling the painter that we must take nature as it is is worth telling the virtuoso that he can sit on the piano”
, summarized Mallarmé.
Painting for gardening and gardening for painting: this is what Claude Monet did here, in this village in the Eure region, for forty-three years.
But also in Yerres then in Petit Gennevilliers, his accomplice Gustave Caillebotte;
in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard, in Vendée, his old friend Georges Clemenceau,
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