You will truly find your own inspiration in scenery that captured the hearts of Turner, Monet, Sisley and many others in the 19th Century. The breathtaking views, the unusual pearlized light and the stunning colours remain the same today.
Normandy was home to many artists. Its proximity to Paris together with the burgeoning number of fashionable seaside resorts like Dieppe, Honfleur, Le Havre, Deauville or Trouville, along its coast meant that artists came to the region by train and stayed, producing an artistic legacy which would be hard to rival anywhere. Breaking away from the more formalised and classical themes of the early part of the 19th Century, the Impressionist painters preferred to paint outdoors, in natural light, and to concentrate on landscapes, towns and scenes of daily life.
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