The Impressionists at home

Monet and Givenchy, Renoir and Les Collettes, Pissarro and the Hermitage at Pontoise: Impressionist artists and their homes are inseparably linked. For each, home meant something slightly different - a place of comfort in a rapidly shifting society, a sanctuary immune to changing fortunes and fame, a simpler way of life away from the city, a place to express their individuality and to entertain. In every case it shaped their art.