Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow
1879 · 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
- Camille Pissarro (1830–1903)
- Year
- 1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 59.2 × 72.3 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Impressionism
Snow lies in thick, frothy mounds over a sloping hillside at Pontoise, covering bushes, banks and the roofs of the houses below. Tall bare trees rise on the left, green shrubs show through the snow, and red chimneys pick out the rooftops on the right. A single man in dark clothes stands on a path at the lower right. Camille Pissarro painted it in 1879, during an exceptionally severe winter in France, at Pontoise, the town about thirty miles west of Paris where he lived. Like Monet and Sisley, he returned to snow again and again, painting nearly a hundred snow scenes. Here the quick, heavy brushwork builds the snow up like a crust on the canvas. Marshall Field gave the painting to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964.
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
Creamy white snow with green shrubs, bare trees and red chimneys under a grey sky. For a kitchen, study or hallway through the winter, pair it with Pissarro's The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning; a dark wood frame brings out the warm notes.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1879)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, 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
