Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)
Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow
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Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903)1879
Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903) →Impressionismnineteenth century19th centuryoil on canvaspaint
Date
1879
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.2 × 72.3 cm (23 5/16 × 28 7/16 in.); Framed: 85.8 × 99.1 × 12.7 cm (33 3/4 × 39 × 5 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Marshall Field
Along with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing nearly 100 “snow” paintings. In 1879 France experienced an extraordinarily severe winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works painted at his home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris, along the Seine River. In Rabbit Warren, snow covers the ground, houses, and vegetation in a frothy coat that resulted from the artist’s vigorous brushwork. Throughout, small spots of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs, and clothing of the man at right punctuate what is otherwise a predominately yellowish white and uninhabited fragment of nature.
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