Sandvika, Norway
1895 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Claude Monet (1840–1926)
- Year
- 1895
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 73.4 × 92.5 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Impressionism
Snow covers the village of Sandvika, near Oslo, in soft white, pink and blue. A dark iron bridge arches over a stream in the foreground, wooden houses with red walls stand behind it, and a rounded wooded hill rises against a pale sky. Bare trees on the right are coated with frost. Claude Monet painted it during a two-month stay in Norway in 1895, when he visited his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania, as Oslo was then called. He found the snow hard to paint at first, but completed 29 Norwegian scenes, including at least six views of Sandvika. The Art Institute of Chicago, which owns this one, suggests the bridge may have reminded him of the Japanese bridge in his garden at Giverny. It is signed and dated 95 at the lower left.
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
A snowy Norwegian village in pale pink, lilac and white, with one dark bridge in the foreground. For a bedroom, hallway or pale living room through the winter, pair it with Monet's The Japanese Footbridge; a dark wood frame warms the cool tones.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1895)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, hallway or entryway, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. 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
