Winter landscapes were particularly attractive to artists such as Sisley, Pissarro and Monet, because of the challenge of capturing the quality of the light and of mastering shadows. For the Impressionists, shadows were not colourless, nor were they simply dark.

Snow scenes were an ideal motif for impressionist: the softening and blurring of forms and the dense atmosphere required a muted palette to capture the myriad tones of reflected light and the softened contours of the landscape.

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	The Versailles Road at Louveciennes (Snow) 1869 Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
	Road, Winter Sun and Snow 1869-70 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Road, Winter Sun and Snow (detail) 1869-70 Oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Fox Hill, Upper Norwood 1870 Oil on canvas, 35 x 46 cm National Gallery, London
	Snow at Louveciennes 1871-72 Oil on cradled panel, 32 x 48 cm Art Institute, Chicago
	Louveciennes 1872 Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen
	Street in Pontoise, Winter 1873 Oil on canvas, 54 x 74 cm Private collection
	Street in Pontoise, Winter (detail) 1873 Oil on canvas Private collection
	Piette's House at Montfoucault 1874 Oil on canvas, 46 x 68 cm The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
	Snow at Montfoucault 1874 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Private collection
	Farm at Montfoucault, Snow Effect 1876 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
	The Road to l'Hermitage in the Snow c. 1874 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Private collection
	Snow at l'Hermitage, Pontoise 1874 Oil on canvas, 55 x 66 cm Private collection
	Snow Effect at l'Hermitage, Pontoise 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Private collection
	The Red Roofs, View of a Village in Winter 1877 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris
	Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow 1879 Oil on canvas, 59 x 72 cm Art Institute, Chicago
	Snow Effect at Eragny, Road to Gisors 1885 Oil on canvas, 34 x 41 cm Private collection
	Snowy Landscape, Eragny, Evening 1894 Oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Ordrupgaard