29Mar21September2025
Exposition au Musée Villa Montebello – « Trouville, c’est mon Amérique à moi »
Sunday 22 June
Musée Villa Montebello 64 Rue du Général Leclerc 14360 TROUVILLE-SUR-MER
Dive into the heart of Trouville-sur-Mer's origins and let yourself be transported to a time when artists and writers took their first steps on its shores. The Villa Montebello Museum invites you to discover a unique exhibition: "Trouville, it's my America. Pioneer artists discover the Normandy coast, 1820–1860."
To learn more…
The first half of the 19th century saw the development of the fashion for sea bathing on the Normandy coast. It all began in Dieppe, an important town with ancestral links to England (where this fashion originated). Then came Trouville.
Why Trouville? Why does the good fairy of sea bathing look at this small river port with almost no seafront? It is the artists who play a fundamental role in this story. The painters leave Paris, in search of the "picturesque", of a nature that is still wild and of populations with authentic ways of life (the opposite of the superficiality of Parisian relations).
From the 1820s, painters who arrived on the shore began to discover Trouville. Paul Huet, Richard Parkes Bonington, Eugène Isabey, Charles Mozin, Camille Corot came there, painted it, then exhibited their paintings at the Salons, the great Parisian exhibitions. This is how the name of Trouville became known and the first bathers came there in turn.
Writers are also there: Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert. Dumas père describes his arrival on the beach at Trouville and modestly compares himself to Christopher Columbus discovering the New World: "Trouville is my America."
The artists of this period bear witness to a Trouville that was still primitive, and then to rapid urbanization. Through a selection of paintings, original drawings, lithographs, and photographs—from public and private collections, some of which have never been seen before—the exhibition will retrace these times of transformation during which two villages (Trouville and Hennequeville) united to become the “Queen of the Beaches.”
> OPENING HOURS:
From March 29 to May 31, 2025 and from October 1, 2025 to January 4, 2026:
– Monday to Friday from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
– Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and every day during school holidays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
From June 1 to September 30, 2025:
– Every day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
Villa Montebello Museum, 64 rue du Général Leclerc. Tel: 02 31 88 16 26.
To learn more…
The first half of the 19th century saw the development of the fashion for sea bathing on the Normandy coast. It all began in Dieppe, an important town with ancestral links to England (where this fashion originated). Then came Trouville.
Why Trouville? Why does the good fairy of sea bathing look at this small river port with almost no seafront? It is the artists who play a fundamental role in this story. The painters leave Paris, in search of the "picturesque", of a nature that is still wild and of populations with authentic ways of life (the opposite of the superficiality of Parisian relations).
From the 1820s, painters who arrived on the shore began to discover Trouville. Paul Huet, Richard Parkes Bonington, Eugène Isabey, Charles Mozin, Camille Corot came there, painted it, then exhibited their paintings at the Salons, the great Parisian exhibitions. This is how the name of Trouville became known and the first bathers came there in turn.
Writers are also there: Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert. Dumas père describes his arrival on the beach at Trouville and modestly compares himself to Christopher Columbus discovering the New World: "Trouville is my America."
The artists of this period bear witness to a Trouville that was still primitive, and then to rapid urbanization. Through a selection of paintings, original drawings, lithographs, and photographs—from public and private collections, some of which have never been seen before—the exhibition will retrace these times of transformation during which two villages (Trouville and Hennequeville) united to become the “Queen of the Beaches.”
> OPENING HOURS:
From March 29 to May 31, 2025 and from October 1, 2025 to January 4, 2026:
– Monday to Friday from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
– Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays and every day during school holidays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
From June 1 to September 30, 2025:
– Every day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 17:30 p.m.
Villa Montebello Museum, 64 rue du Général Leclerc. Tel: 02 31 88 16 26.
Themes:
- Painting
All dates and times
| Opening hours from March 29 to September 21, 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Monday | Open |
| Tuesday | Open |
| Wednesday | Open |
| Thursday | Open |
| Friday | Open |
| Open on Saturday | Open |
| Sunday | Open |
Pricing
| Pricing | Min. | Max. |
|---|---|---|
| Basic rate | 8 € | Not disclosed |
| Reduced price | 4 € | Not disclosed |
