Giverny Impression » Monet’s House

Claude Monet’s house and gardens, aka Fondation Claude Monet, will reopen to the public after the winter break on March 29, 2024. It will be the Easter week-end, so it may be quite busy on the ...

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In early spring, a bouquet of forsythia is a must to match the yellow hues of Claude Monet’s dining room at Giverny. The gardeners help themselves in hidden corners of the garden to compose lov...

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Claude Monet paid attention to organise a cosy sitting and reading nook in his three studios at his Giverny home. This comfy flowered settee is located in a room called salon-atelier, that’s to...

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Claude Monet was a huge fan of Paul Cézanne. When the master of Giverny eventually became successful and rich, he started collecting eagerly the most beautiful works of his less renowned yet 10 ...

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Today at Giverny, at the entrance to Monet’s house, two forsythias grown in planters glow for the show.

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This picture was taken in one of the bedrooms of Monet’s home at Giverny. The house dates back to the mid-1800’s and most of the fixtures are still original, so I suppose this window handle i...

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As long as the water is still cold, the algaes don’t feel like growing. They wait patiently for better times to come. In March, the water of Monet’s pond is so clear that the bottom looks clo...

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This is what Claude Monet could see when he gazed through his bedroom’s window in April. Last year spring was very early and the first colors were already there at the opening of the garden. Wa...

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  Here is a close-up of the desk that can be seen in Claude Monet’s bedroom at Giverny. It is from the mid 18th Century and features music instruments, not painting material. It was already an...

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A puzzling sign hangs on a fence in Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny. Visitors are begged not to disturb the owl. They scrutinize the cage. Where can this mysterious owl be sleeping? Their effo...

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Blanche Hoschedé-Monet was at the same time Monet’s step-daughter, because he married her mother, and his daughter in law, because she married his son. She inhabited Monet’s house at Giverny...

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According to Claude Monet’s step son Jean-Pierre Hoschedé, the painter loved blue flowers. This beautiful solanum, a plant belonging to the family of tomatoes and potatoes, is covered with sim...

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The large window of Monet’s first studio at Giverny looks like an eye scrutinizing the flowers of the garden in order to paint them. It opens onto the little rose garden, a corner that is rarel...

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The first studio occupied by Claude Monet is part of his main house at Giverny. In this room, Monet stored the paintings he didn’t want to sell, to keep a record of the steps of his career. Now...

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Monet’s property at Giverny is surrounded by high stone walls. This is nothing special in Normandy, as many estates and gardens are a so called ‘norman enclosure’, in French ‘Clos normand...

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