Normandy's Top 10 Artworks to See While Bayeux Tapestry Is in London

Key facts

• The Bayeux Tapestry is currently on loan to London.
• Normandy is the birthplace of Impressionism and a favorite destination for Modernists like Picasso, Braque, and Duchamp.
• Louis and Charles Rochet sculpted the Equestrian Statue of William the Conqueror in Falaise in 1851.
• The Shrine of Saint Taurin is a 13th-century reliquary made in Paris between 1240-1255.
• Caravaggio's Christ at the Column (circa 1607) is in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen.
• Eugène Boudin's Lady in White on the Beach at Trouville (1869) is at MuMa Le Havre.
• Eva Gonzalès's Plage de Dieppe vue depuis la falaise Ouest (1871) is at the Château-Musée, Dieppe.
• Monet's garden at Giverny was restored in the 1970s.
• Monet painted 30 studies of Rouen Cathedral between 1892 and 1895.
• Marcel Duchamp's Two Nudes (1910) is the only Duchamp work in Normandy, on loan from the Centre Pompidou.
• Georges Braque created the stained-glass window The Tree of Jesse in 1961 for L'Église Saint-Valery, Varengeville-sur-Mer.
• Anilore Banon's Les Braves (2004) at Omaha Beach commemorates the Normandy landings.
• Nick Trend's book 'France in the Footsteps of the Great Artists' is published by Thames & Hudson on September 10.