Impressionisms Routes provides its members and partners with an Impressionist and Landscape Exhibition, displaying a desire for excellence, which can be presented in multiple ways depending on the characteristics of the host community.
Globaly, we have around sixty impressionist paintings, reproductions on high quality canvas and around forty self-supporting “roll up” type educational panels, retracing the history of Impressionism in France and Europe.
This exhibition has been presented, in its different forms, more than 25 times since 2012 on numerous partner sites in France and Europe.
One of the originalities of this exhibition is that it includes around fifteen paintings created by European impressionist artists from Belgium, Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Lithuania, Finland. , Russia, Sweden, Hungary, Poland… thus testifying to the European vocation of the Impressionisms Routes© network.
In the appendix and as an example, you will find a model of an exhibition composition presented in April 2022 at the Palais Lumière in Evian-Lac Léman, in April 2023 in Waasmunster (Belgium East Flanders) and in May 2023 during the Congress of 100 Most Beautiful Detours in France in Moret-sur-Loing in the Paris Region…
Opening up the world’s museums and offering the quintessence of Impressionism
Impressionism was rooted in the colours, lights and landscapes of the Seine valley. Many thousands of paintings are set on the banks of the river and its immediate surroundings: harbours, villages, bridges, boats and sailing ships; they magnify the changing effects of water and sky.
Life along the banks and the activities of human beings have inspired some of the greatest painters: Boudin, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Daubigny, Degas, Fréchon, Guillaumin, Jongkind, Lebourg, Lépine, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pinchon, Pissarro, Renoir, Rouart, Seurat, Signac, Sisley and Van Gogh.
The exhibition brings together some of their most representative works, taking in the Val de Seine from the foliage of the Forêt de Fontainebleau to the edges of the estuary and the Normandy coast.
It represents a remarkable opportunity to programme a cultural event of general interest that is accessible to all, and whose educational aspect will be appreciated by teachers and their pupils, who will be able to extend the exercise into their school activities. It is an opportunity for the public to become aware of the richness of the sites they visit on a daily basis and their extraordinary worldwide reputation. The initiative is all about opening up the world’s museums and offering the best to the public…
The exhibition is of a high artistic and cultural standard, and has been designed to be attractive to visitors.
It is designed to be of impeccable quality: the latest reproduction techniques have been used to render the Impressionist colours to perfection.
The explanatory texts have been written by Monique Lucenet, professor and historian, author of several books on the Impressionists, including: ‘La Grande Jatte. Belle Isle en Seine’ (2008), second edition in 2016, ’La Seine Impressionniste. Itinéraire artistique et touristique’ published in 2011, “Impressionnisme en Seine” (2014) and “Balades Impressionnistes en Bord de Seine” (2016). For more information, see the bookshop.
This itinerary evokes the places that inspired the Impressionists and produced their universally celebrated treasures, the pride of the greatest museums.
- The Barbizon school, Bourron-Marlotte, Chailly-en-Bière and the Fontainebleau forest: the crucible of Impressionism…
- Moret-sur-Loing and the surrounding area: Thomery, Valvins, By, Samois, Saint-Mammès, Veneux-les-Sablons…
- Melun and the surrounding area: Champrosay, Maincy, Yerres…
- Paris: the birthplace of Impressionism…
- The first loop of the Seine to the west of Paris: Ile de la Grande Jatte (Neuilly and Levallois), Issy, Boulogne, Meudon, Sèvres, Saint-Cloud, Suresnes, Puteaux, Courbevoie, Asnières, Clichy, Nanterre, Colombes, Bois-Colombes, La Garenne-Colombes, Epinay-sur-Seine, Ile Saint-Denis, Villeneuve-la-Garenne…
- Argenteuil, Bezons and Petit Gennevilliers, Carrrières-sur-Seine.
- Canoeists’ paradise: Bougival, Rueil-Malmaison, Chatou and l’île des Impressionnistes, Louveciennes, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Marly-le-Roi, Port-Marly, Croissy and La Grenouillère, Le Pecq and Saint-Germain, Le Vésinet, Montesson, Le Mesnil-le-Roi.
The Herblay loop: Maisons-Laffitte, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, La Frette-sur-Seine, Sartrouville, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Andrésy… - A diversion via the Oise: L’Isle-Adam, Osny, Le Mesnil-Théribus, Auvers-sur-Oise, Chaponval,
Méry-sur-Oise and Pontoise. - The borders of the Ile de France: Mantes, Limay, Poissy, La Roche-Guyon, Epône, Médan, Vétheuil, Lavacourt, Port-Villez, Bonnières, Bennecourt, Mézières-sur-Seine, Verneuil-sur-Seine, Triel-sur-Seine, Rosny-sur-Seine, Rolleboise…
- Normandy from Giverny to Rouen: Vernon, Gaillon, Château-Gaillard and Les Andelys,
- The loops of the Seine from Rouen to the Pont de Normandie: La Bouille, Sahurs, Duclair, Caudebec-en-Caux, Villequier, Quillebeuf, the Marais Vernier.
- West of the estuary: Calvados, Honfleur and the Côte Fleurie, Trouville, Deauville, Villerville, Villers-sur-mer, the Touques valley, Fervaques, the Côte de Nacre, the Bessin, Port-en-Bessin, Grandcamp, the Pays d’Auge, Suisse Normande.
- Le Havre and Sainte-Adresse: Etretat, Fécamp and the Côte d’Albâtre, Varengeville, Pourville, Dieppe…
List of exhibitions produced by the Impressionisms Routes networks²
To date, the exhibitions proposed by the Impressionisms Routes network have been presented 27 times in France and Europe.
Exhibitions 2012-2018
Bougival (Yvelines). 4-21 october 2012
Limay (Yvelines) 14-26 januaryr 2013
Port-Marly (Yvelines) 11-26 fébruary 2013
Moret-sur-Loing (Seine-et Marne) 8-14 arch 2013
Médan (Yvelines) 3-19 april 2013
Samois-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne) 8-26 mai 2013
Poissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines) 28 Mai-9 june 2013
Crozant (Val de Creuse) summer 2013
Andrésy (Yvelines) 14-20 september 2013
Barbizon (Seine-et-Marne) 6-14 décember 2013
Gargilesse (Val de Creuse, Indre) 12 Juillet-15 august 2014
Osny (Val d’Oise) 17-28 september 2014
Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) 14 september-3 october 2015
Villages perchés du Haut-Var (Var) 25 july-13 august 2017
Marseille-l’Estaque (Bouches-du-Rhône) 5-18 september 2018
Exhibitions 2019
Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts de Seine) 6 mai 2019 au 22 mai 2019
Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) 31 mai au 28 june 2019
Croissy-sur-Seine (Yvelines) 13 au 22 september 2019
Levallois (Hauts-de-Seine) 28 september au 20 october 2019
Paris (Carrousel du Louvre) 11-12 october 2019
Exhibitions 2021/2024
Evian-Lac Léman (France-Switzerland) 2-3 april 2022
Fontainebleau (France) 31 mai- 3 june 2022
Paris, Palais Brongniart (France) 18-19 november 2022
Waasmunster (Flandre Belgium) 12 au 25 march 2023
Moret-sur-Loing (France) june 2023
Croissy-sur-Seine (France) march 2024
Versailles (France) march 2024
Bougival (France) 20 september au 10 october 2024
² Full exhibition dossier available on request from Georges Lucenet, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director. Eau & Lumière/Impressionisms Routes. lucenet.georges@wanadoo.fr
