To visit the places where the painters posed their knight is to enter the environment which sometimes inspired their most famous compositions.
The 37th European Heritage Days, from Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 September, are an opportunity to discover these artists' residences now transformed into a museum.
From Paris to Cagnes-sur-Mer, France is home to a beautiful palette of these picturesque places.
Sometimes there are works preserved in their birthplace as relics in their chapel.
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Eugène Delacroix's apartment in Paris
"The sight of my little garden and the laughing aspect of my studio always give me a feeling of pleasure", wrote Eugène Delacroix in his diary on December 28, 1857. This place tucked away in a corner of the pretty place de Fürstenberg in the 6th arrondissement arrondissement of Paris, now houses a museum dedicated to the father of
La Liberté leading the people.
Remained almost intact, the apartment-studio offers testimony to Parisian architecture of the mid-19th century.
The paintings, drawings and prints exhibited in the dining room, bedroom and living room are renewed several times a year.
You have to descend a wooden and metal staircase to enter the studio, the heart of the museum where the most beautiful works are hung.
Outside, you can sit in the garden designed by Delacroix himself, like a hermitage in the heart of Paris.
For European Heritage Days, the museum opens its doors free of charge from 9:30 am to 8 pm on September 19 and 20.
Mandatory reservation.
Eugène-Delacroix National Museum, 6 rue de Fürstenberg, 75006 Paris.
Phone.
: 01 44 41 86 50. Open Wednesday to Monday, 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
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Cézanne's workshop in Aix-en-Provence
Cézanne's studio, in Aix-en-Provence, where the painter composed his last paintings.
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We almost expect to see Cézanne appear to compose a still life from apples carelessly placed in a white fruit bowl.
In his studio, large windows and a glass roof light up a bric-a-brac of stools, old easels and wooden furniture on which rest paintings, sculptures and pieces of crockery.
It is here that the painter made his last paintings, such as
Les Grandes Baigneuses
, in 1906.
A route provides access, in 15 minutes on foot, to where Cézanne posed his knight to paint the Sainte-Victoire mountain.
The rocky eminence, which obsessed the artist, appears in 17 watercolors and 11 oils on canvas.
Nine reproductions arranged on the point of view allow today to compare the mountain with the different representations of the painter.
Saturday 19 September, for Heritage Days, free guided tours are scheduled every 30 minutes, from 9:30 am to 6 pm without reservation.
Workshop of Cézanne, 9 avenue Paul-Cézanne, 13100 Aix-en-Provence.
Phone.
: 04 42 21 06 53. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 am to 6 pm.
Or sleep ?
Villa Saint-Ange, 7 traverses saint-pierre, 13100 Aix-en-Provence.
Phone.
: 04 42 95 10 10. 10 minutes by car.
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The town of
Caillebotte in Yerres
The family room is furnished as in the artist's time.
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Gustave Caillebotte was 12 years old when his parents moved into this wealthy mansion built in the 1830s. The 11-hectare park with winding paths and plant arrangements accompanied his childhood, and fed his future inspirations.
While walking in the park today, we find places present in the 80 paintings made by the impressionist painter within the property, which leave a large room for resort atmospheres or leisure activities on the river.
Inside, the family room with its green and gold curtains is furnished as in the artist's time.
The dining room, living room and billiard room have been sumptuously redecorated.
The Caillebotte workshop hosts exhibitions of paintings by the painter and his contemporaries.
On the occasion of European Heritage Days, the Orangerie exhibits drawings of the park in Chinese ink signed Cristelle Téa, and guided tours of the park are organized all weekend from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., by reservation. .
Caillebotte property, 8 rue de Concy, 91330 Yerres.
Phone.
: 01 80 37 20 61. The house is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 6.30 pm, and the park from Monday to Sunday from 9 am to 8 pm.
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Renoir's house in Cagnes-sur-Mer
15 original paintings and 40 sculptures are kept in this house that the painter had built at the beginning of the 20th century.
Renoir Museum - DR city of Cagnes-sur-Mer
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was already crowned with success when he had this bourgeois house built with all the amenities of the time in Cagnes-sur-Mer.
He moved there in 1908 with his family and received his friends Rodin, Bonnard, Matisse and Modigliani.
The Domaine des Collettes was renovated in 2013 as Renoir knew it with the original furniture.
It houses 15 original paintings, 40 sculptures and some archives of the painter.
The visit continues in the workshop of the impressionist master.
He painted his last paintings there: nudes of young engaged Cagnoises, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and tried his hand at sculpture.
This small space of four high white walls with large windows now contains a space for children and a didactic exhibition, in the heart of the garden and its centuries-old olive trees.
Several events are planned for the Heritage Days.
In addition to the guided tours carried out by the curator of the museum in person, a contemporary dance performance is scheduled on Saturday from 10:30 to 11:00 by the Aix-based company Cie Marie Hélène Desmaris and
Les Figures impressionistes
, a show that brings Renoir's world to life. .
For the little ones, drawing workshops are organized on Saturdays from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Reservation on 04 89 22 40 74.
Renoir Museum, 19 Chemin des Collettes, 06800 Cagnes-sur-Mer.
Phone.
: 04 93 20 61 07. Open from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm, every day except Tuesday.
Or sleep ?
La bastide gourmande, 660 Route de Cagnes, 06480 La Colle-sur-Loup.
Phone.
: 04 93 22 62 42. 15 minutes away.
The Gustave Moreau house in Paris
More than 1,300 paintings, watercolors and cartoons and nearly 5,000 drawings are to be discovered in the four floors of the Maison de Gustave Moreau, in Paris.
“Separated, they perish;
taken together, they give a little idea of what I was as an artist and of the environment in which I liked to dream, ”noted the artist about his works at the bottom of a sketch dated December 24, 1862 .
Only the workshop (on the 2nd and 3rd floor) has been open to visitors since the reopening on June 17th.
The accumulation of symbolist canvases on the walls gives it a dreamlike atmosphere accentuated by the elastic staircase that slides in a spiral from floor to ceiling.
Musée national Gustave Moreau, 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld, 75009 Paris.
Phone.
: 01 48 74 38 50. Open from 2 pm to 6 pm every day except Tuesday.
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The m
ouse Monet in Giverny
The central path of Monet's garden connects the house to the pond where a few water lilies still float.
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As if painting was not enough, Monet devotes himself to gardening with an artistic passion.
In the hectare of land bordering his property in Giverny, he organizes the landscape as he composes a painting, with shadows and lights, bursts of color and perspectives.
Daffodils, tiles, daffodils, irises, peonies and oriental poppies radiate like so many colored brushstrokes between the tall grass.
It erects metal arches along the central alley lined with cypresses, nasturtiums and fragrant roses.
In the water garden, a green Japanese bridge is reflected on the surface of a pond where a few water lilies float ...
Inside the longhouse in pink plaster, the same symphony of color.
The kitchen dressed in blue Rouen tiles, the dining room with its yellow walls and the studio lounge, where around sixty replicas of his greatest works rest, are carefully arranged as in the painter's time.
Claude Monet Giverny Foundation, 84 rue Claude-Monet, 27620 Giverny.
Phone.
: 02 32 51 28 21. Open every day from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
Or sleep ?
Le Jardin des Toiles, 155 rue Paul-Doumer, 78510 Triel-sur-Seine.
Phone.
: 01 39 74 75 66. 50 minutes by car from Giverny.
Rosa Bonheur's castle in Thomery
Rosa Bonheur's studio where her painting accessories still rest between the paintings.
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Embroidered blouse, hat, boots, brushes, sketchbooks and notebooks, and even cigarette butts… In Rosa Bonheur's studio, everything remained as when the artist died in 1899. Stuffed animals, models of the animal painter, still rest in the room built by the architect Jules Saulnier.
It is here, at the castle of By, that she receives the Legion of Honor from the hands of the Empress Eugenie.
The visit of the main body of the house and the workshop is accompanied by a garden bordered by 300
Pierre de Ronsard
rosebushes
, and a garden with deckchairs.
After the visit, we take a break in the tea room to taste a homemade pastry made from recipes from Rosa Bonheur's cook.
For Heritage Days, the castle organizes guided tours at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., a visit for children at 3 p.m., video conferences, a signing session by Pierre-Yves Cézard on Saturday afternoon for a children's book. on the construction of the studio, and a concert dedicated to Louise Farrenc, a 19th century composer.
Château de Rosa Bonheur, 12 rue Rosa-Bonheur, 77810 Thomery.
Phone.
: 09 87 12 35 04. Open from 10 am to 6 pm every day except Monday.
Or sleep ?
In Rosa Bonheur's own bedroom!
A suite located in the main building of the castle, restored with the original furniture according to the works memories and the glass plates found in the attics.
350 € per night with brunch and guided tour of the museum.
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The a
partment of Suzanne Valadon in Paris
Easels and painting equipment have found their place in Suzanne Valadon's studio in Montmartre.
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In the sacred district of Parisian painters, rue Cortot in Montmartre, the apartment of the post-impressionist Suzanne Valadon has been refurbished as in the artist's time.
The stove, easels and painting equipment have found their place.
A large glass roof illuminates the workshop which overlooks a garden where Renoir painted.
Paintings and period photographs cover the wallpapers with floral motifs.
The artist stayed there with her husband André Utter, also a painter.
Her son, the artist Maurice Utrillo, came to visit her from time to time.
Her bedroom facing the street has been restored with a white bed, small desk and oil lamp.
At the window, the bars are still there.
A canvas from his white period hangs on the painted wall, as a souvenir of his stays here.
The Montmartre museum, of which Suzanne Valadon's apartment is part, organizes free guided tours by reservation on Saturday, September 19.
Montmartre Museum, 12, rue Cortot, 75018 Paris.
Phone.
: 01 49 25 89 39. Open Wednesday to Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm.
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