1872
oil
canvas
From the collection of Denver Art Museum
The Thaw is a 1872 oil by Camille Pissarro, a Impressionism work, held at Denver Art Museum.
This painting shows a landscape with a house in the center, surrounded by trees and a road in front. The scene is depicted in shades of brown and gray, with some touches of green. In the foreground, the road is covered with snow and mud, suggesting that it's early spring. The house appears old and worn, with a few windows and a chimney. The trees surrounding the house are bare, adding to the sense of winter's end. The painting's use of earthy tones and focus on everyday life is reminiscent of the work of Camille Pissarro.
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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