Iconic Winter Paintings

-Silviu Rad

The Census at Bethlehem – Pieter Bruegel

The scene of the painting depicts Mary and Joseph, the parents of baby Jesus, as well as a number of other people gathered around for the annual numbering of the town’s people.

Snow at Argenteuil – Claude Monet

this painting is one that features a heavy snow falling on the community of Argenteuil, which was Monet’s home at the time.

Winter Landscape – Caspar David Friedrich

The painting is dark and depicts the land blanketed with a covering of snow.

The grey clouds swirling overhead are a stark contrast from the white snow that sits beneath.

The Magpie – Claude Monet

The Magpie is an oil-on-canvas landscape painted during the winter of 1868–1869 near the village of Étretat.

In the painting, a black magpie is perched on a gate in a wattle fence as sunlight falls on fresh white snow, creating shadows.

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