1870
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Snow at Louveciennes is a 1870 oil by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, depicting Snow, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a small village covered in snow, with trees and houses blanketed in white. The painting is interesting because it was made with a limited color palette, which gives it a calm and quiet feel. This limited palette also helps to show the freshness of the snow. Check out the technique of chiaroscuro to learn more about how artists use light and dark to create depth in their 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.
Private collection, Paris [per Paul Rosenberg & Company, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 21, 1973, curatorial object file]. Sarec, S.A., Switzerland, by December 1972 [per Elaine Rosenberg, meeting notes, May 2002, curatorial object file and Sylvie Brame, Brame & Lorenceau, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 19, 2002, curatorial object file]; sold to Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York, Dec. 1972 [per Elaine Rosenberg, meeting notes, May 2002, curatorial object file and Paul Rosenberg & Company, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 21, 1973, curatorial object file]; sold to the Art…
Washington, D. C., Phillips Collection, Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige, Sept. 19, 1998–Jan. 3, 1999, cat. 35 (ill.); 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, cat. 17 (ill.); Milwaukee Art Museum, June 10–Sept. 9, 2007; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Oct. 7, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008.
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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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