Tag Monet

Articles about the Places of Claude Monets Paintings – Tips for Traveling in his Footsteps

These articles will take you to the many places captured in Claude Monets paintings. You will learn about where Monet lived and the places he loved to immortalize with his bright palette of colors and ‘crude’ brushstrokes.

You will also read about the towns and villages that he traveled to. Many of these places he painted over and over again. He often captured one view many times but under different lights, weather conditions and various times of day. These places are still so beautiful and still worth visiting today.

Follow Monet’s footsteps in France and visit the many places scattered across Normandy that he painted. You will read about Etretat on the stunning Alabaster coast, Trouville – Deauville, Picture-Perfect Honfleur and the port city of Le Havre. It was here in Normandy where Monet grew up and lived in his later years. It was the Normandy landscapes that he most loved to paint!

Read about the other French villages that captivated Claude Monet such as Bougival not far from Paris and Antibes in Southern France.

Follow his international travels to London and Zaandam in Holland. Read about his lover affair with Venice in Italy. You will be able to view the Claude Monet paintings that he made while visiting these very beautiful places.

In addition, you will receive many travel tips about the best art museums in France to view the best of Claude Monet’s paintings.