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Snow, ice and short days

Winter

Snow the way painters have actually met it: a plum branch under fresh snow, bamboo bent with the weight of it, a Dutch river crowded with skaters, puppies in a drift. Mostly ink and colour on silk, with a few European winters among them. Cold weather painted from somewhere warm, which is the kindest way to meet it.

25 pictures, pick one to build

Winter landscapes and flowers Qian Weicheng Snow on the Sumida River (Sumida), from the series, Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1833 Drawing the Eel Salomon van Ruysdael, early 1650s The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning Camille Pissarro, 1897 Fragrant Snow at Broken Bridge Wang Mian, 14th century Winter Landscape Hayashi Hyakuhi 林百非, dated 1840 January and February (part of a set illustrating the months of the year) Follower of Antoine Watteau, second quarter 18th century The Forest in Winter at Sunset Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1846–67 A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle Christoffel van den Berghe, ca. 1615–20 Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter Alfred Sisley, 1891 Bamboo in Snow Painting by Dapeng Zhengkun (Taihō Shōkon), 1774 Winter Landscape Kano Tan'yū, 1662 Winter Attributed to Anne Vallayer-Coster, 18th century Winter Landscape Unidentified artist, 13th century Winter Landscape Kano Sansetsu 狩野山雪, second quarter of the 17th century Swans and Winter Landscape Unidentified artist Summer Landscape / Winter Landscape Hayashi Hyakuhi, 1842 Winter landscape with fisherman Shi Zhong, late 15th–early 16th century Snow Landscape Hashimoto Gahō, ca. 1885–89 Snow Landscape Unidentified artist Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century Snow Plum Unidentified artist Puppies in the Snow Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪, 1792–99 Plum in snow Liu Shiru Wintry mountains Gong Xian, ca. 1679–89