MAISON CAILLEBOTTE

Maison Caillebotte is open from March 15 to November 1. The park is accessible all year round. Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 2pm to 6.30pm. Free for children up to 16 years old. Adult: 8 € (3 € for Yerrois). Children welcome. Guided tour. Restoration. Animations. Close. Vegetable garden. Temporary exhibitions. Boat trips. Park. Parking.

Located in Yerres, the Maison Caillebotte was owned by the eponymous family between 1860 and 1879. Gustave Caillebotte practiced his art here, producing some 80 paintings. Donations from the "Amis de la Propriété Caillebotte" and the collections of the Mobilier National have enabled the house to be refurbished as it was in the painter's day. A tour of the estate will take you to several ornamental mills representing an outstanding example of the Romantic movement in 19th-century landscape painting. "La Maison", with its Palladian-style colonnade, illustrates the life and passions of the artist's entire family. Take a tour of the family bedroom, with its original furniture, or the painter's studio, now a showroom regularly featuring his original paintings and those of his contemporaries. In the museum rooms, you can follow the history of the estate and the family. The "Exedra" factory, a symbol of time travel evoked by Greco-Roman statuary, and "La Volière", a home to birds prized for their songs, are also well worth a visit. Discover "Le Potager", a 1,700 m² garden featuring the painter's original greenhouse with a sump mechanism. There's also the "Glacière", once used to preserve foodstuffs. To this day, the estate has become one of France's leading Impressionist sites.