- Category
- Art and Museums, Excursions and Day Trips
- Duration
- Half Day
- Location
- Paris
- Walk alongside the green pastures of Giverny that inspired Monet
- Led by an art historian
- Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny, and Monet's Garden
Giverny Tour
Natural Inspiration
"My first time at Giverny, and what an experience! With all those incredible flowers, our guide's dynamic lecture, and Monet's pond, I couldn't ask for more. This is one of the best tours we've had in our travels."
Take-Aways
FAQ
You will meet your guide in Paris and travel with them by train to Giverny. Your confirmation email will have the exact meeting point. The tour ends in Giverny. The guide usually takes the train back to Paris after the tour. Your train ticket is an open ticket, and you're welcome to stay in Giverny and return to Paris at your leisure.
The start time may be able to be slightly adjusted, this depends entirely on the train schedule to Giverny which can change often.
This excursion is walking-intensive, includes public transport, and the Monet Foundation is only partially accessible to wheelchair users. Please contact us with any questions; we will be happy to advise if this tour will be appropriate for you.
We will purchase train and entry tickets for you and your guide will have them on hand. There is also a short bus from the Giverny train station to Monet's Gardens. Clients are responsible for the bus fee (approx. €10.00), which must be paid in cash.
The daughter of a sculptor, Marie has been surrounded by art ever since she was born. A native Parisienne, she holds an undergraduate degree in history and art history, with a specialty in iconography and French and Flemish paintings from the 16th to the 18th centuries. She also holds a Master's degree in museology from the Ecole du Louvre and one in Art History from the Sorbonne. She currently works for the French National Art History Institute on special cultural events. Since she loves literature, ballet, theatre, opera, jazz clubs, and classical concerts—she has been playing the piano since she was 9—Paris and its artistic life are a perfect fit.
James King is a painter, sculptor and printmaker living in France since graduating from the University of Oxford in 1987. In 2011, after twenty-five years in Paris, he moved with his French wife and three young children to the Vexin region, west of the capital, not far from the village of Giverny, where he frequently leads walks for Context through the house and gardens of the impressionist painter Claude Monet. James also leads tours of the Louvre and Orsay museums, where he enjoys sharing with adults and children alike his intimate experience of painting and sculpture. In addition to art-focused seminars in Paris, he leads a number of hands-on painting and drawing workshops for Context in Giverny, Auvers sur Oise (the last home of Van Gogh), and other places.
Marie Theres is a painter who has made Paris her home for more than two decades. She works in her studio in Montmartre and shows her paintings in galleries in Europe and the United States. She studied history at the University of Cologne, Germany and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia before coming to Paris to study art history at the Ecole de Louvre. Her knowledge of art history is enhanced by her practical painting experience. Beyond a purely academic approach, this enables her to convey the emotional dimension of the artwork and to focus attention on the act of creation. She loves to share her passion for art and painting and is fascinated by the 19th-century artistic heritage of Paris, its art movements, and urbanism.
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