The Seine runs through it

La Maison Fournaise Renoir the immersive experience

78400 Chatou

  • Municipal museum
  • Private museum
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Musée Fournaise
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The Fournaise museum proposes a meeting with the artist during a show, punctuated by digital animations and videos, in the middle of the atmosphere recreated by the sets of theaters. of the museum.

One hundred years after his death, Renoir is back in Chatou hologram! Familiarly, he tells us about his vision of painting, the harsh criticisms of his contemporaries, his workshop secrets, his loves, his relatives ... and the fertile inspiration drawn from the banks of the Seine.
At the time of the first scandals, Durand-Ruel and some amateurs give him a decisive support by buying him paintings. Alphonse Fournaise is one of the first! He ordered his portrait and that of his daughter for 200 francs. For more than ten years, Renoir made frequent stays at home and around Chatou where he painted about thirty paintings.
Aged nearly forty, he began the ambitious Breakfast of the Boaters. This painting, painted on the balcony of the Maison Fournaise, is the result of long research. The painter feels then that he has arrived "at the end of impressionism". This great admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance dreams of making this work a bridge between Veronese, Raphael and the modern life of his century. Retained at the Fournaise by his painting in 1880, he wrote to Monsieur de Bellio: "You will not regret your trip. It is the most beautiful place around Paris. "

To complete your experience in the footsteps of Renoir, go back in time on the Fournaise hamlet thanks to the virtual reality helmets, wander among the characters of the Breakfast of the boaters with the tactile tablets or create your own work according to the master in painting Virtual.

In this unprecedented show, technology offers an innovative, fun and surprising approach to an immersive journey in the heart of the painter's Impressionist years in Chatou.

- Departures of visits every 30 minutes. Come 15 to 20 minutes in advance.

- Duration of the show: about 60 minutes

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The Seine runs through it

3 rue du bac

Île des Impressionnistes

78400 Chatou

  • Town location
  • Riverside
  • Cycling itinerary less than 1 km away
  • Overview on river
  • Close to pleasure port
  • Close to a motorway
  • Cycle track/route within 500 m
  • Waterside
  • In the country
  • Pier within 500 m
  • Town outskirts
  • Pedestrian area
  • River -5 km away
  • Lake -5km away
  • Close to a public transportation
  • Marked hiking trails less than 500 m away
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