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Look for blue and gray within the snow, then compare the branching trees with the small upright figure beneath them.
Painted on a small wooden panel, this winter view shows Louveciennes, the village west of Paris where Pissarro lived. A limited range of cool whites, browns, and blues carries the scene. The dark trees and lone figure give the pale snow a sense of depth without a bright focal color.
Oil on panel · 32.3 × 47.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Snow at Louveciennes
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
- Date
- c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Endowment
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.