About ‘Rabbit Warren in Pontoise, with snow, Camille Pissarro - 1879’
Together with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing almost 100 "snow"-paintings.
In 1879 France experienced an exceptionally harsh winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works he painted at home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris, along the River Seine. In Rabbit Warren, the snow covered the ground, the houses and the vegetation in a frothy coat resulting from the artist's powerful brushwork. Throughout, small patches of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs, and the clothing of the man on the right punctuation what otherwise is a predominantly yellowish white and uninhabited fragment of nature.
Camille Pissarro, born as Jacob Abraham Pizarro was a French impressionist painter.
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