Snow at Louveciennes

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1870

Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)

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.

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Camille Pissarro
Title: Snow at Louveciennes
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1864–1874
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: C. Pissarro
Dimensions: 32.3 × 47.5 cm (12 3/4 × 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Endowment
Reference Number: 1973.673
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Christopher Lloyd, Camille Pissarro (Skira/Rizzoli, 1981), pp. 42 (ill.), 145.
Charles S. Moffett, Eliza E. Rathbone, Katherine Rothkopf, and Joel Isaacson, Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige, exh. cat. (Phillips Collection/Philip Wilson, 1998), pp. 142–43, cat. 35 (ill.); 213.
Marie-José Pellé, “Vert Pissarro …”: Impressions de Normandie et d’ailleurs (Bertout, 2000), p. 49.
Belinda Thomson, “Gli impressioniste e la neve,” in Gli impressionisti e la neve: La Francia e l’Europa, ed. Marco Goldin, exh. cat. (Linea d’ombra, 2004), p. 268 (ill.).
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, with the collaboration of Alexia de Buffévent and Annie Champié, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures/Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 1, trans. Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor (Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2005), pp. 76, 421.
Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, with the collaboration of Alexia de Buffévent and Annie Champié, Pissarro: Catalogue critique des peintures/Critical Catalogue of Paintings, vol. 2, trans. Mark Hutchinson and Michael Taylor (Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2005), pp. 130–31, cat. 143 (ill.).
Katherine Rothkopf, with an essay by Christopher Lloyd and contributions by Gülru Çakmak and Mary Sebera, Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art/Philip Wilson, 2006), pp. 108–09, cat. 17 (ill.).
“Cat. 3: Snow at Louveciennes, c. 1870,” in Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, eds. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), https://publications.artic.edu/pissarro/reader/paintingsandpaper/section/8.

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.

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 Institute of Chicago, 1973.

Cat. 3 Snow at Louveciennes, c. 1870

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