Plein Air: Impressionist Atlas

Every great plein air painting was made somewhere real. Plein Air maps those places — the riverbanks, harbors, gardens, and streets where the Impressionists and their contemporaries set up their easels — and lets you stand, in the app or in person, exactly where they stood.

Open the map and 140+ paintings appear as pins across 14 regions, from Monet's Giverny to Sorolla's Valencia, Sargent's Venice, and the Skagen painters of Denmark. Tap any spot to see the painting, then turn it over to compare the artist's canvas with a photograph of the same view today. A century apart, side by side.

THEN & NOW • Flip between the original painting and today's view with a double tap • See how a harbor, a bridge, or a hillside has — and hasn't — changed

EXPLORE BY MAP • 140+ paintings pinned to the real locations they depict • 14 regions across France, England, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and the Netherlands • "Also painted here" surfaces other works from the same spot

FILTER BY PAINTER & MOVEMENT • 22 painters — Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sargent, Sorolla, Krøyer, and more • Movements including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, the Macchiaioli, the Hague School, the Newlyn School, and the Skagen painters

FOR THE ROAD • Mark spots you've "Been here" and build a record of your own plein air pilgrimages • "Like" the paintings you love • A directory of 88 museums where you can see these works in person

Free, private, and quiet. No account, no ads, no tracking. Just paintings and the places that made them. Paintings are in the public domain. Present-day photographs are courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, with attribution shown in the app.