1879
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow is a 1879 oil by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, depicting Snow, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
The painting shows a snow-covered scene with houses and trees. It's interesting because Pissarro made many snow paintings, almost 100. He liked to paint snow scenes, and this one is special because it was made during a very cold winter in France. Check out the technique of impasto to learn more about how Pissarro created the textured, snowy effect in this painting.
Along with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley , Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing nearly 100 “snow” paintings. In 1879 France experienced an extraordinarily severe winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works painted at his home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris, along the Seine River. In Rabbit Warren, snow covers the ground, houses, and vegetation in a frothy coat that resulted from the artist’s vigorous brushwork. Throughout, small spots of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs, and clothing of the man at right…
The artist (d. 1903); given to Julie Pissarro (artist’s wife), Paris, by 1892 [per Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition Camille Pissarro, exh. cat. (E. Ménard et Cie, 1892), p. 23, cat. 11]; by descent to her son, Ludovic-Rodolphe (Rodo) Pissarro, Paris, 1904 [this and the seven following per Pissarro and Snollaerts 2005]; sold jointly to Durand-Ruel, Paris, and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Aug. 7, 1918; share sold by Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Mar. 12, 1920. Georges Petit Paris, by Mar. 31, 1924; sold to Prat, Mar. 31, 1924. Sam Salz, New York, around 1958. Martin and Sidney Zimet,…
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Camille Pissarro, Jan. 23–Feb. 20, 1892, cat. 11, as La Garenne, à Pontoise; effet de neige, Appartenant à Mme P. Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22–Aug. 25, 1974, no cat. London, Hayward Gallery, Pissarro: Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Oct. 30, 1980–Jan. 11, 1981, cat. 51 (ill.); Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jan. 30–Apr. 27, 1981; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 19–Aug. 9, 1981. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 68 (ill.); Art…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French: ; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
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