Snow at Louveciennes
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 32.3 × 47.5 cm (12 3/4 × 18 11/16 in.); Framed: 49.6 × 64.8 × 8.3 cm (19 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Camille Pissarro made this small oil on panel painting showing trees and houses blanketed by a heavy snow at Louveciennes, the village west of Paris where he lived. Using a limited palette of shades of white, brown, blue, tan, gray, and green to evoke the gray skies and freshly fallen snow of a cold winter day, Pissarro created a scene that has the freshness and spontaneity of a work painted outdoors. Only the footsteps of a solitary figure, walking below the screen of trees, break the silence of this intimate and poetic winter scene.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
