Maison et jardins de Claude Monet – Giverny

In 1883, Claude Monet settled in Giverny, a small village in the Eure department (Normandy). Seduced by the poetry of the place, the master of Impressionism acquired a beautiful house surrounded by a park, which he transformed into a sort of "painting executed in nature". From the Clos Normand’s flower beds to the water garden’s water lilies and the Japanese bridge, Claude Monet created a unique outdoor palette. Towards the end of his life, this alive painting of his precious garden setting became his sole source of inspiration.

In 1966, at the wish of Michel Monet, the painter's second son, the house, its collections and gardens became part of the heritage of the Académie des beaux-arts. Under the direction of Gérald Van der Kemp and with the support of the Eure department, the Académie undertook a major restoration campaign financed by French and American patrons.

Inaugurated in 1980, the Claude Monet’s House and Gardens open up to the public the artist's intimate world, his collection of Japanese prints, his furniture, his workshops, and above all the gardens and surrounding countryside that inspired his famous "series".

In 2016, fifty years after the death of Michel Monet, who made the Académie des beaux-arts his universal legatee, the Académie acquired almost 70 hectares of land in the communes of Giverny, Port-Villez and Vernon from the Terra Foundation for American Arts. By exercising the moral rights vested in it by the last heir of the master of Impressionism, the Académie has ensured the preservation of the landscapes known, loved, surveyed and often painted by Claude Monet.