The first painting of the Norwegian stay
The Denver Art Museum presents this work as the first painted by Monet upon his arrival in Norway. It precedes the fjord and Mount Kolsaas series, but already establishes its observation of snow effects.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1895 · Denver Art Museum 39.2017 · W1394
Two isolated houses emerge from a vast snowy slope. Behind them, a blue-green band marks the sea or the fjord, then a pink and gray sky occupies the top of the canvas. Monet simplifies the Norwegian village to a few dark shapes and a red fireplace. The snow, far from white, mixes pink, lilac, turquoise and ocher in long touches that follow the terrain.

Look at the work
The buildings are grouped slightly to the right of the center. Their white roofs stand out thanks to the red-brown walls and purple shadows. The fireplace in the house on the left acts as a small vertical accent in the middle of a mostly horizontal landscape.
The foreground rises towards the houses and occupies more than half of the canvas. The keys follow the slope in long diagonals pale pink, sky blue and sea green. At the back, a turquoise band separates the terrain from the sky without forming a hard boundary.
Monet transforms snow into a colored surface: houses are not the main subject, but the landmarks which reveal its immensity.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The Denver Art Museum presents this work as the first painted by Monet upon his arrival in Norway. It precedes the fjord and Mount Kolsaas series, but already establishes its observation of snow effects.
The buildings occupy a very small portion of the field. Their size makes the foreground larger and accentuates the isolation of the site. Enlarging them in a reproduction would cause you to lose this breath.
Pure whites remain rare. Monet uses sky roses, shadow blues and reflected greens. The painter of reproduction must preserve these passages rather than covering the ground with a uniform hue.
Reference image
The single reference image measures 1,280 × 905 px. It corresponds to composition W1394 from the Denver Art Museum and has been encoded as a real WebP to its native definition, without artificial enlargement.
The distant strip is located in the upper quarter. This framing gives priority to the snowy slope and the path of the gaze towards the houses, while keeping enough sky to diffuse the light.
The houses provide the warmest and darkest notes. The ground takes up the pink of the sky and the blue of the distance. This circulation of colors connects the planes despite their simplicity.
The touches of snow are not placed at random: their directions describe the slope and its undulations. Their rhythm must remain visible so that the foreground appears neither flat nor empty.
Documented benchmarks
These landmarks concern precisely the painting of the Denver Art Museum, inventory 39.2017 and Wildenstein 1394.
Painted in 1895, this oil on canvas measures 25 5/16 × 36 1/2 inches, or 65.6 × 92.7 cm. It belongs to the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection of the Denver Art Museum.
The artist arrived in January 1895 in the Christiania region, today Oslo. He then settled near Sandvika, where snow, fjords, villages and Mount Kolsaas became his main motifs.
Long known by the market and a private collection, the painting now bears the number 39.2017. Its entry into the Denver collection allows this version to be clearly identified among several houses under the snow.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Houses in the Snow, Denver W1394 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1895 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.6 × 92.7 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Inventory | 39.2017 · Wildenstein 1394 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Peach pink, glacier blue, turquoise, red brown and ivory give this reproduction a calm and northern light. The horizontal format matches a light wall, natural wood and gray, sand or muted blue textiles.
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