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A snow-covered rural lane stretches toward the horizon, bordered by a wattle hedge and bare, snow-laden trees. A wooden gate stands at left with a single black-and-white magpie perched on top. A farmhouse with red chimneys is visible in the middle distance. Long blue shadows from the trees and fence stretch across the sunlit snow in the foreground. The canvas is signed „Claude Monet“ at lower right.
Monet painted this snow scene on the spot near Etretat in the winter of 1868–69, five years before the exhibition that gave Impressionism its name. The jury of the 1869 Salon rejected it, which the Musée d’Orsay puts down to the novelty of an approach concerned more with perception than description. The museum, which bought the painting in 1984, singles out its pale, luminous colours as very unusual for the time.
Claude Monet (1840–1926) gave Impressionism its name and its longest career. From the 1870s he painted outdoors in the Seine valley and on the Normandy coast, pursuing the changing light of a single motif in series — haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the Thames — and from 1890 the garden he built at Giverny, whose water lilies occupied his last twenty-five years. His paintings are held by the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the National Gallery in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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