Winter at the River Simoa
1883 · Oil on canvas · Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Frits Thaulow (1847–1906)
- Year
- 1883
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 49.5 × 78.5 cm
- Collection
- Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
- Movement
- Impressionism
A child in a small green rowing boat pulls across a dark stretch of open river, the water still enough to hold the reflections of trees and a red farm building on the far bank. Snow lies thick on the slopes above, on the near bank at the right, and on a thin shelf of ice that edges the current. Pine forest closes the top of the picture. Frits Thaulow painted it in 1883, during the years when he was working out how to paint snow and moving water out of doors in the Norwegian countryside. The open, reflecting river against white banks became his signature subject, and he returned to it for the rest of his career. He signed and dated it at the lower right. The Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo bought the painting in 1933.
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
Dark, glassy river water between banks of white snow, with a small green boat and a red farmhouse for colour. Hang it in a living room or study beside Sisley's Snow at Louveciennes, in a dark wood frame to warm the cool greys.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1883)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
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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
