Snow at Louveciennes
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)c. 1870
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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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.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 32.3 × 47.5 cm (12 3/4 × 18 11/16 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 2 exhibitions
Provenance
- Private collection, Paris.
- Sarec, S.A., Switzerland, by December 1972; sold to Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York, Dec. 1972; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.
Exhibitions
- Washington, D. C., Phillips Collection, Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige, Sept. 19, 1998–Jan. 3, 1999; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco at the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, Jan. 30–May 2, 1999; New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, May 28–Aug. 29, 1999.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape, Feb. 11–May 13, 2007; Milwaukee Art Museum, June 10–Sept. 9, 2007; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Oct. 7, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008.
