Honfleur — Painting as a Living Legacy
· Honfleur
© Camille Plichard · Office de Tourisme de Honfleur · Source
In Honfleur, painting seems to begin before we even enter a museum. A changing sky, a façade reflected in the water, light passing across the quays: the landscape invites us to pause. Then paintings teach us to look again.
The Eugène-Boudin Museum brings together works by painters who found inspiration here: Boudin, Dubourg, Courbet, Jongkind, Monet, and later artists with their own visions of Normandy. Its collections trace a history of painting through skies, landscapes, seascapes and the sensations a place can awaken.
This autumn, the exhibition celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the Friends of the Eugène-Boudin Museum, known as SAMEB, continues until 3 January 2027. It celebrates acquisitions and works brought into the collections through the association. Behind a collection lies another patient story: works chosen, passed on and made available for everyone to see.
© Musées de Honfleur · Source
The exhibition invites us to think of collecting as a living connection. A painting travels through the years because someone makes room for it, returns to it and shares it. Painting retains its power to surprise us long after that first encounter.
The walk can continue through Honfleur today. At Galerie Arnaud Bard, Fabricia Lepoutre’s paintings open onto lived-in interiors, windows, tables and colours that allow a space to breathe. A different voice, a different rhythm: the freedom of a contemporary gaze, waiting to be discovered along the way.
Plan your visit
Exhibition open until 3 January 2027
Eugène-Boudin Museum · Rue de l’Homme de Bois · 14600 Honfleur
02 31 89 54 00
Museum information, opening hours and tickets ↗
Announced events
- — Discover works donated by SAMEB throughout the collections ↗
- — Paintings donated by SAMEB ↗
- — SAMEB’s gifts: more than paintings ↗
- — Guided tour of the SAMEB seventieth-anniversary exhibition ↗
SAMEB also presents the exhibition on Saturdays at 4.30 pm, except 26 December 2026 and 2 January 2027.
Continue your walk with Fabricia
Galerie Arnaud Bard · 27 rue Haute · 14600 Honfleur
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