All Giverny tours take their clients to see the gardens and last home of Claude Monet. Our’s is unique in that our private tour of Giverny uses the 90 minute drive there to evoke the complicated and often contentious character of the artist, and bring him to life.

We also trace the tortuous odyssey that led from a teenager in Le Havre with a talent for drawing caricatures to the pinnacle of success in what became known as the Impressionist movement.

This luxury Giverny tour is as much a voyage into the mind and psychology of the artist as it is a visit of what he considered his finest artistic achievement, his gardens, and his last home. We also detail some of the master’s technical innovations, which rendered his art unlike that of anyone else. This is explained in simple terms that are easy for clients to comprehend.

Our Giverny tour leaves the Normandy autoroute at Mantes la Jolie, and takes a small road that leads to Vétheuil, the village in

which Monet lived some of the most bitter and impoverished years of his life with his first wife and his mistress. As we approach the village, we stop at a site that Monet twice painted, a view of the Seine river with the village in the background, painted when spring was in full blossom. The view today is quite similar to the way it looked when he painted it, and the comparison of the actual with what he rendered is a unique way for you to enter the mind and soul of the artist.

By the time our Paris Luxury Tour reaches Giverny, you will have an insight into what made Claude Monet the unique man and artist he became,

which contributes substantially to your enjoyment in seeing his gardens and home. Our private Giverny tours are truly unique, memorably enjoyable, and require half a day to perform.

To complete a full day of touring, we can supplement our Giverny tours with a private tour of Van Gogh’s Auvers sur Oise, or a half day tour of the Chateau and Park of Versailles, or of Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral. For dyed-in-the-wool Impressionists, we can include Le Havre’s Andre Malraux Musuem of Fine Arts where the extent of Monet’s debt to Eugene Boudin becomes crystal clear.

Those sensitive to the special relationship between French and American art will also enjoy including in this private tour of Giverny a visit to the American Art Museum located next door. Others with a more gourmet predilection will not want to miss a fabulous lunch at the 'Auberge du Prieure Normand' in near-by Gasny, an unforgettable bargain.

Cost for 1-3 persons: 850 € per group
4-6 persons: 950 € per group
Meals, entry fees, drinks not included.

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