# Snow at Louveciennes

- By: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45838)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d4e43d76-594b-ce65-c1a3-45c865624f70/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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