Rooftops in the Snow
1878–1879 · Oil on canvas · Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
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About this work
- Artist
- Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894)
- Year
- 1878–1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Movement
- Impressionism
From a high window, the view runs across a jumble of Paris rooftops under fresh snow. Grey roofs, dormer windows, chimney pots and clusters of red-brown flues are picked out in white against dark walls. Further back, rows of apartment buildings fade into a flat grey sky, and a few bare trees rise between them. The view is tightly cropped, with roofs cut off at the edges. Gustave Caillebotte, a painter and a patron of his Impressionist friends, painted it in the winter of 1878 to 1879. It was shown at the fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1879. After his death, his brother Martial gave it to the French state in 1894. It went first to the Musée du Luxembourg and has been in the Musée d'Orsay since 1986.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Snowy Paris rooftops in white, slate grey and soft red-brown under a flat grey sky. For a study, office or city hallway in winter, pair it with Robert Henri's Snow in New York; a black frame suits its greys.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1878–1879)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
