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rendered large areas of the canvas in closely like tones and colours of blue and grey. The application of smaller strokes of greens, yellows, reds and darker blues breaks up these large expanses, and the almost choreographed dispersal of these various colours helps bind the picture together. Paint at the depicted road surface is thicker than elsewhere in the painting, and impasto is suggestive of the feel of disturbed snow.
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pictures from the winter of 1874–1875 were painted from locations close to the house on the boulevard Saint-Denis (now number 21 boulevard Karl Marx) into which Monet and his family had just moved. This particular painting shows the boulevard Saint-Denis looking in the direction of the
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while it was under a blanket of snow during the winter of 1874–1875. This painting—number 352 in
Wildenstein's catalogue of the works of Monet—is the largest of the eighteen. The attention to detail evident in the smaller paintings is less evident in this larger picture. Instead, Monet has
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Un hiver il voulut peindre un effet de neige; j'en possédais précisément un de Monet qu'il vint voir; il dit, après l'avoir examiné: « Cela est parfait, on ne saurait faire mieux », et il renonça à peindre de la
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Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné. Tome I : 1840–1881. Peintures. Daniel
Wildenstein. Daniel Wildenstein Institute. La Bibliotheque des Arts, Lausanne – Paris. Genève. 1974. p. 264.
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of Paris in 1892; then by Harris
Whittemore of Naugatuck, Connecticut in 1893. Acquavella Galleries of New York acquired the painting in the early 1970s, and then it was purchased by
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The Simon
Sainsbury Bequest to Tate and The National Gallery. Edited by Andrew Wilson. Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd., Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. 2008.
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The Simon
Sainsbury Bequest to Tate and The National Gallery. Edited by Andrew Wilson. Tate Publishing, a division of Tate Enterprises Ltd., Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. 2008.
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The
National Gallery Review of the Year. April 2007 – March 2008. Edited by Karen Morden and Rebecca McKie. The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN. 2008.
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junction with the rue de la Voie-des-Bans, with the river Seine out of sight to the rear, and the local railway station behind Monet's back as he painted.
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Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son œuvre. Théodore Duret. Librairie
Charpentier et Fasquelle, 11 rue de Grenelle, Paris. 1906.
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404:On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
340:A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur
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603:The Studio Boat (Le Bateau-atelier)
595:A Corner in the Garden at Montgeron
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715:The Valley of the Creuse, Sunset
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