This spring, the Musée Jacquemart-André is proud to present an ensemble of some fifty or so prestigious artworks—from both private collections and major American and European museums—that retrace the history of Impressionism, from the forefathers of the movement to the Great Masters. 

Dieppe, Honfleur, Le Havre, Trouville-Deauville, Étretat, Rouen and many other Normandy seaside towns are symbolic of a particular and intense period of creation in the history of painting, and of the growing movement of plein-air landscape painting. All of the Impressionists, without exception, went to Normandy to paint at different moments in their lives and careers. In the 1820s, a large group of artists gathered here, exchanging ideas, working together and above all, honing their style. They were the future Impressionists, united in their desire to break away from tradition.