First Snow at Veneux-Nadon
1878 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Alfred Sisley (1839–1899)
- Year
- 1878
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Movement
- Impressionism
A first light snow has settled on a country road, a garden fence and the roof of a yellow-walled house at Veneux-Nadon. Bare branches crusted with snow fill the right side of the picture. On the left, a railway line with telegraph poles runs into the grey distance, and a few small figures walk along the road. The sky is a low, even grey-green, and the snow is laid in with short, broken strokes. Alfred Sisley, a British painter born and raised in Paris, painted it in 1878 and signed it at the lower left. Veneux-Nadon is a village beside Moret-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris, where Sisley later settled and spent the rest of his life. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, given in 1983 by Lolo Sarnoff in memory of her grandfather, Louis Koch.
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
Soft grey, green and white, with a fine net of snowy branches across a quiet road. A calm winter piece for a bedroom, study or hallway, paired with Sisley's Snow at Louveciennes; a black frame sharpens the branches.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1878)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- bedroom, 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
