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Baby, It’s Cold Outside: 7 Snowy Landscape Paintings to Enjoy

Rachel Witte 5 December 2024 min Read

Snow. You either love it or hate it. Are you able to picture a fresh snowfall in your mind? Or is it falling outside your window as you read this article? Either way, there is nothing quite like the feeling of existing at the same time as a fresh snowfall. It stops us in our busy lives, sometimes shutting down whole cities around the world. Bringing “normal” lives to a standstill, causing us to either enjoy the beauty of nature or shiver in the freezing temperatures. Let’s look at some snowy landscape paintings that will make you fall in love with the weather of winter.

How does snow enrapture us? What about the falling ice crystals that captured, and still do, the hearts and minds of artists? Below are several snowy landscape paintings to help better understand the rejuvenating feeling of a winter’s snowfall if you happen to live somewhere in the world that does not see much, if any, snow during the colder months. Or, if you like to look at snow but do not enjoy the cold weather it comes with, enjoy these paintings.

1. Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A snow-covered lake in Paris

It could be argued that one of the best activities involving snow is outdoor ice skating. And it looks as if many people agreed with that sentiment based on this landscape painting at the Bois de Boulogne in Renoir‘s Paris.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, snowy landscape painting winter landscape paintings

2. & 3. Claude Monet: Winter weather in the city and fields

The 19th-century Impressionist painter created over 100 paintings on the theme of snow. Below are two of those well-known oil paintings.

Claude Monet, Snow Scene at Argentuil winter landscape paintings

Claude Monet, Wheat Stacks, Snow effect, Morning. winter landscape paintings

4. Camille Pissarro: Snow-covered Paris

Like his fellow Impressionists, Pissarro created beautiful snowy landscape paintings. Below, he focused on the area of Paris near the Louvre.

Camille Pissarro, Louvre under snow winter landscape paintings

5. Edvard Munch: A walk in the winter weather

There is something special about Munch’s depiction of a snow-covered street. The stark contrast of the snow-covered street to the browns, blacks, and reds of the surrounding trees, sky, and figures, makes for a great “snow” themed painting.

Edvard Munch, New Snow in the Avenue, Oslo, Snow covered, winter landscape paintings winter landscape paintings

6. Kazimir Malevich: Abstract winter weather

This painting is interesting because, even though it is more abstract, the colors and shapes help us identify it as a snowy landscape painting. You can read more about his paintings here!

Kazimir Malevich, Morning in the village after snow storm winter landscape paintings

7. John Northcote Nash: Snow-covered fields

The oil painting depicts melting snow. But it could also very well be a fresh light dusting of the winter weather.

John Northcote Nash, Melting Snow at Wormingford winter landscape paintings

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