Famous Winter and Snow Paintings
Snow gives painters a rare chance to work with blue shadows, pale light and quiet. Choose a hand-painted oil reproduction of a famous winter landscape.
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About Famous Winter and Snow Paintings
Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted "Hunters in the Snow" in 1565 as part of a series on the seasons. Tired hunters and their dogs walk down a hill towards a valley where villagers skate on frozen ponds. It hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In the Dutch Republic Hendrick Avercamp made the frozen canal his speciality, as in "Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters" (around 1608, Rijksmuseum).
The Impressionists loved snow for its coloured shadows. Claude Monet's "The Magpie" (1868 to 1869, Musée d'Orsay) shows a single black bird on a gate in a field of sunlit snow. Alfred Sisley painted the village of Louveciennes under snow several times, with soft greys and muted blues. In his scenes the snow is rarely pure white, but full of pale pinks, lilacs and blues.



































































































