DISCOVER Paris, Fontainebleau & Normandy in a private guided tours with SANDY

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3 avril 2018	Édition 2018, Numéro 14
Welcome on our newsletter, We are happy to suggest you a Private walking tour of the Jacquemart-André museum and the park Monceau http://sandytours.com/en/our-tours/paris/original-museum-tours/monceau-valley-and-jacquemart-museum Jacquemart-André museum  When you like to visit Paris with a writer, don’t hesitate to make a walking tour of the Latin quarter in Paris and admire most of the streets described by Ernest Hemingway that are looking the same. Paris en fête / Ernest Hemingway It is possible to choose a private walking tour of the Saint Germain des Près or a Notre-Dame and Cluny museum private tour http://sandytours.com/en/our-tours/paris/original-walking-tours/left-bank-latin-quarter Saint-Germain des Près church http://sandytours.com/en/our-tours/paris/original-museum-tours/notre-dame-cathedral-the-island-of-the-city-and-cluny-museum Notre-Dame cathedral Phone : 06 73 14 69 06 Fax : 01 42 11 07 51 E-mail contact@sandytours.com Website : http://www.sandytours.com	EXHIBITION Mary Cassatt An American Impressionist in ParisFrom 9 March to 23 July 2018 “In the spring of 2018, Culturespaces and the Musée Jacquemart-André will be holding a major retrospective devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926). Considered during her lifetime as the greatest American artist, Cassatt lived in France for more than sixty years. She was the only American painter to have exhibited her work with the Impressionists in Paris. The female representative of impressionism The exhibition focuses on the only American female artist in the Impressionist movement; she was spotted by Degas in the 1874 Salon, and subsequently exhibited her works alongside those of the group. This monographic exhibition will enable visitors to rediscover Mary Cassatt through fifty major works, comprising oils, pastels, drawings, and engravings, which, complemented by various documentary sources, will convey her modernist approach — that of an American woman in Paris. A franco-american approach of painting Born into a wealthy family of American bankers with French origins, Mary Cassatt spent a few years in France during her childhood, continuing her studies at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy, and eventually settled in Paris. Therefore, she lived on both continents. This cultural duality is evident in the distinctive style of the artist, who succeeded in making her mark in the male world of French art and reconciling these two worlds. The originality of her vision Just like Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt excelled in the art of portraiture, to which she adopted an experimental approach. Influenced by the Impressionist movement and its painters who liked to depict daily life, Mary Cassatt’s favourite theme was portraying the members of her family, whom she represented in their intimate environment. Her unique vision and modernist interpretation of a traditional theme such as the mother and child earned her international recognition. Through this subject, the general public will discover many familiar aspects of French Impressionism and Postimpressionism, along with new elements that underscore Mary Cassatt’s decidedly American identity. A prestigious selection The exhibition will bring together a selection of exceptional works loaned from major American museums, such as Washington’s National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Terra Foundation in Chicago; works will also be loaned by prestigious institutions in France — the Musée d’Orsay, the Petit Palais, INHA, and the BnF (French National Library) — and in Europe, such as the Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, and the Bührle Foundation in Zurich. There will also be many works from private collections. Rarely exhibited, these masterpieces will be brought together in the exhibition for the first time. ~~~~~~~~ Fontainebleau forest      We are at your disposal for many private tours in Paris, around Paris and on long distance excursion in France. Fontainebleau castle and Barbizon village are situated in the south of Paris after 1 hour driving. You can discover a very nice architecture dating from the middle-age with a great collection of the Renaissance school of Fontainebleau directed by Italian artist with the protection and order of the king of France François the 1st. Fontainebleau castle It was also in the 19th century the official residence of the emperor Napoléon the 1st: you can visit over there many furniture of his apartments. It is also possible to go in the forest of the Fontainebleau and enjoy the village of Barbizon where are many painters in the 19th century such as the famous artist Jean-François Millet. ********* In Normandy, we suggest you to make the D-Day landing beaches private excursion where you will discover the WWII battle and events with the allies and the liberation of France. Américan cemetery http://sandytours.com/en/our-tours/france-long-distance/minivan-full-day-tours/normandy-d-day-beaches-1944-private-guided-tour