The lecture by Chris Boïcos follows how the artists – Boudin, Courbet, Monet, Manet, Degas, Seurat, and Signac, among others – responded to the discovery of the seaside in their own travels and depictions of the modern resorts, like Deauville, Trouville, or Dieppe on the Channel coast, Belle Isle and Concarneau in Brittany or Antibes, Nice and Saint-Tropez on the Riviera.

In the nineteenth century, the seaside came to be viewed as the ideal spot to escape the bad air and diseases of the increasingly crowded and polluted cities created by the industrial revolution. The spread of the railway system also made travel easier, swifter, and more comfortable. In France, entire towns were created in the space of a couple of decades to cater to the needs and comfort of an urban class migrating en masse to the northern seaside in the summer months and to the shores of the Mediterranean in the winter.

Every month, on the third Saturday, Christophe and Anne-Catherine take turn and host a conference, followed by a short Q&A session. The conference will be recorded live, and available online for one month.

Starts at 5:00pm (CET) / 11:00am (ET) - available on replay for one month

Members only.

Credit: Claude Monet, “La Promenade à Trouville”, 1870, collection particulière