Chrysanthemums, Wisteria, Irises, Tulips, Poppies, Waterlilies… In bouquets, sprinkled across a field or here and there in a garden: in impressionist painting flowers and aquatic plants represent an ideal motif for the painter in his search for immediacy, harmony and the essence of colour.
(Monet, Caillebotte, Gauguin, Morisot and others)

While the spring flowering was one of the impressionists' favourite subjects, Monet, Pissarro, Caillebotte and Morisot also looked to autumn and winter for their "rainy weather" and "snow effects".
(Caillebotte, Lebourg, Monet, Morisot, Sisley, Pissarro and others)

Following the example of such predecessors as Conot and Boudin, the impressionists left their studios to paint their landscapes in the open air. An examination of different pictures shows just how original the impressionist movement was: in their approach to the preliminary sketch, in a use of colour that played with "the light of the seasons and the hours that pass", in their choice of subjects - urban as well as rural scenes - they also established a new vision of the city in full industrial expansion.

(Caillebotte, Guillaumin, Monet, Morisot, Rouart, H. Robert and others)

A century of painting introduces children to several types of portrait, from the great historical figures of the Empire to the anonymous or casual models of the impressionist period: Bonaparte as Chief Consul, Portrait of Poly, Monet.
(J. Franque, Riesener, Manet, Monet, Renoir and others)

These tours can be modified according to teacher's ideas and suggestions.