Rugged cliffs or long sandy beaches, sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent seas, blue skies or high cloudy mountains: more than seventy works - for example by Jean-Gustave Courbet, Baptiste Camille Corot and Claude Monet - show the importance of Normandy for Impressionism. Those who paint in the open air here have to work quickly, as the weather changes rapidly. This results in fleeting, atmospheric snapshots that characterize the style. The exhibition is based on the "Peindre en Normandie" collection of the same name, which was founded in Caen in the 1990s.
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