Venice, a question of point of view. Is there not a single artist who has escaped the nets of the Most Serene Venice? Claude Monet, Félix Ziem, Albert Marquet, James Abbot McNeill Whistler... All gave in to the irresistible call of the lagoon in the second half of the 19th century. The Louviers museum in turn takes us on a journey of several days, prompting us to board the Norman train to reach Paris, Turin, Milan and finally the City of the Doges.

On our arrival on the quays of the Grand Canal, we discover Venice under a silver sun in a seascape by Eugène Boudin created at the twilight of his life. The old painter captures the true color of the air there, eclipsing the sweetness of spring on the shores of the Adriatic in favor of an anthracite palette with Atlantic nuances and a sky speckled with clouds. Further on, we find the British Walter Sickert enchanted by the architecture of St. Mark's Square, meet Henri Martin on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore before lingering on this nitescent vision of Santa Maria della Salute. Franz-Richard Unterberger paints the city here as an infinite mirage where water and sky merge, a dream bathed in light whose only link with reality seems to be this gondola in the foreground gliding across the lagoon...

Place Ernest Thorel, 27400 Louviers

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