Your guide will pick you up at your Paris hotel at 9AM to drive you to Giverny, where Claude Monet had his lovely country home, water gardens and studio.
See for yourself how the most
famous Impressionist lived and worked, visit his atelier and imagine him
painting the willows, ponds with bridges and waterlilies.
For lunch (out of Pocket), we will stop at a traditional water mill restaurant that is 350 years old – le Moulin de Fourges. It has great food and superb gardens.
In the afternoon, we’ll head to Auvers sur Oise, where Van Gogh used to live and is now buried.
When Van Gogh decided to leave the asylum at Saint-Rémy, it was the artist Camille Pissarro who suggested that he go to Auvers, where he could receive care from Dr. Paul Gachet.
A homeopathic doctor and psychiatrist, Gachet had written about neuroses in artists and was a devoted amateur painter and etcher. A patron and friend to the Impressionists, he routinely opened his home to Pissarro, Cézanne, and others. A number of artists produced their first etchings under Gachet's guidance.
Van Gogh planned to make a series of prints in Gachet's studio, but completed only one, a portrait of the doctor. Gachet cared for Van Gogh at his death, sketching a portrait of him in his final hours.