Back in 2011 at this time of year, (winter in the northern hemisphere), I posted some snow paintings that proved very popular. This short series is an expanded version, featuring paintings from the year 1412 through to 1940. It updates and replaces the earlier post.
This is part 1 of a 2-part series on snow paintings:
This is part 1 of a 2-part series on snow paintings:
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| 1412-16 Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry by the Limbourg Brothers 22.5 x 13.6 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly, France |
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| 1565 The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder oil on wood panel 117 x 162 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
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| 1590 Winter by Jacob Grimmer oil on panel 36.5 x 59.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| 1807 Cairn in Snow by Caspar David Friedrich oil on canvas 61 x 80 cm New Masters Gallery, Dresden, Germany |
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| 1811c Winter Landscape by Caspar David Friedrich oil on canvas 32.5 x 45 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1828 Winter Landscape near Taiping by Johan Christian Dahl oil on canvas 173 x 205.5 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 1833-34c Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido" by Utagawa Hiorshige colour woodblock print 22.5 x 34.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1856 Snow Scene by Louis Rémy Mignot oil on canvas 45.1 x 61 cm |
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| 1856-86 At Dusk ( Boston Common at Twilight ) by Childe Hassam oil on canvas 106.6 x 152.4 cm Museum of FIne Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1867 Deer in a Snowy Landscape by Gustave Courbet oil on canvas 60.5 x 73.5 cm 60.5 x 73.5 cm Daniel Malingue Gallery, Paris |
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| 1867 The Cart. Snow-covered road at Honfleur by Claude Monet oil on canvas 65 x 92.5 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski |
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| 1868 Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir oil on canvas 72.1 x 89.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1869 Road to Versailles at Louveciennes ( Snow Effect ) by Camille Pissarro oil on canvas 38.4 x 46.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1872 Louveciennes Road - Snow Effect by Camille Pissarro oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1872 The Road to Versailles at Saint-Germain, Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro oil on canvas 55 x 91 cm |
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| 1873 Snow at Louveciennes by Alfred Sisiley oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1874 Snow at Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1874 Snow at Louveciennes by Alfred Sisley oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm |
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| 1874 Snow effect at Argenteuil by Alfred Sisley oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm Private Collection |
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| 1874 The Street at Argenteuil by Claude Monet oil on canvas 54.6 x 73.7 cm Museum of FIne Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1875 Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter by Claude Monet oil on canvas 81.6 x 60.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1875 Effect of Snow, Marly by Alfred Sisley oil on canvas 50 x 61 cm |
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| 1875 Snow Scene at Argenteuil by Claude Monet oil on canvas 71.1 x 91.4 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1875 Train in the Snow by Claude Monet oil on canvas 59 x 78 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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| 1876 Thaw on the Way by Julius von Klever oil on canvas 45 x 54 cm |
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| 1878 Rooftops in the Snow by Gustave Caillebot oil on canvas 64 x 82 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1878 Snow at Louveciennes by Afred Sisley oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1879 Garden Under Snow by Paul Gauguin oil on canvas 80.5 x 60.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary |
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| 1880-85 Snow Effect by Alfred Sisiley pastel on paper 45.7 x 54.6 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| 1884 Fir Forest in Winter by Ivan Shishkin oil on canvas 140 x 95 cm |
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| 1885 Le Givre à Giverny by Claude Monet oil on canvas 54 x 71 cm |
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| 1885 Route de Giverny en Hiver by Claude Monet oil on canvas 65.5 x 81 cm |
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| 1888 Landscape with Snow by Vincent van Gogh oil on canvas 38.2 x 46.2 cm Guggenheim Collection |
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| 1890 Snow covered Landscape by Walter Launt Palmer gouache |
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| 1890-1900 Winter Harmony by John Henry Twachtman oil on canvas 65.4 x 81.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1890-1900 Winter Silence by John Henry Twachtman oil on canvas 58.1 x 31.5 cm Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA |
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| 1890-1900c Lingering Leaves by Walter Launt Palmer mixed media on board 45.7 x 60.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890-1900c Round Hill Road by John Henry Twatchman oil on canvas 77 x 76 cm |
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| 1890-1910c Place de la Republique in Winter by Eugène Galien-Laloue gouache on paper 19 x 31.7 cm |
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| 1890c A New York Blizzard pastel on wood pulp cardboard 35 x 24 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA |
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| 1890c Snow at Vaudreuil by Gustave Loiseau oil on canvas 53 x 64 cm Private Collection |
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| 1890c Street in Paris in the Snow by Louis Valtatoil on paper on cradled panel 28.5 x 45.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1891 Haystacks, Snow Effect by Claude Monet oil on canvas 60 x 100 cm Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT |
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| 1891 Haystacks, Snow Effect, Morning by Claude Monet oil on canvas 64.8 x 99.7 cm The Getty Centre, Los Angeles |
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| 1891 In the Wild North by Ivan Shiskin oil on canvas 161 x 118 cm Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine |
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| 1891 Partridges in the Snow by Józef Marian Chełmoński oil on canvas 123 x 199 cm National Museum in Warsaw, Poland |