- Title:
- Lavacourt under Snow
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- Snow scenes were a particular favourite among the Impressionists, and Monet painted several canvases that explore the way sunlight plays upon the snow, reflecting tones of red, pink, purple and blue at different times of day. He produced this scene of Lavacourt, a tiny hamlet on a bend in the Seine, when he was living in Vétheuil on the opposite side of the river.The picture is dated 1881, but it may have been painted earlier, during the winter of 1879/80, which was unusually cold. The Seine froze over and Monet was captivated by the way the landscape was transformed by snow and ice, braving the freezing temperatures to set up his easel out of doors. The great bank of snow in the foreground is conveyed with broad sweeps of the brush, the whites overlain with blues. The cold tones suggest that this side of the river is in shadow, unlike the opposite side, where the pink tones suggests the warmth of pale sunlight.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Room 41
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/149/312/110/mid_N-3262-00-000022.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 59.70
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 80.60
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- about 1878-81
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1878
- Date - latest:
- 1881
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Claude Monet
- Person's birth date:
- 1840
- Person's death date:
- 1926
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG3262
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0CXU-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3262
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-01CA-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33262
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- winter scenes
- Style:
- river scenes
- Style:
- landscapes
- Style:
- Impressionist
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 160-1
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 463
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 104
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane and his Pictures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Courtauld Collection: A Catalogue and Introduction
- Reference details:
- 66-7, 68
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- La vie de Monet
- Reference details:
- 234
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Monet: Nature into Art
- Reference details:
- 121
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Impressionisim for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector
- Reference details:
- 10
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Methods of the Masters. Monet
- Reference details:
- 82-3
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Monet
- Reference details:
- 283
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Claude Monet 1840-1926. Ein Fest für die Augen
- Reference details:
- 104
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Colour of Time: Claude Monet
- Reference details:
- 138-9
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné
- Reference details:
- 1.336, 5.33
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné
- Reference details:
- 2.201-2
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Introducing Impressionism. Frank Rutter, Lucien Pissarro and Friends
- Reference details:
- 212
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery, II: Sir Hugh Lane's Pictures
- Reference details:
- 7
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Analyses of Paint Media
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Modern French Pictures at the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 57
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Impressionism
- Reference details:
- 182-7
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Impressionism in Britain and Ireland
- Reference details:
- 161-2
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery Bill and Sir Hugh Lane's Bequest
- Reference details:
- 396
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Grosse Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung
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- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Simon Sainsbury bequest to Tate and the National Gallery / edited by Andrew Wilson ; with contributions by Lucy Askew … Christopher Riopelle … et al.].
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 7 (p. 51)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 145)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Light : a National Gallery touring exhibition in partnership with Bristol Museums and Art Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne /[written by Sarah Richardson].
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A closer look : colour /David Bomford and Ashok Roy.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 34 (p. 37)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Colour and light : fifty Impressionist and post-Impressionist works at the National Museum of Wales /Ann Sumner ; with contributions by Louisa Briggs and Julia Carver.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 19)
- Reference type:
- reference
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