Winter Paintings: Depicting the Wonderland Season

“Stillness is the flower of winter, all hope waits beneath a blanket of white.”

– Unknown.

Winter is a magical time of year, with a special and rare quietude in the air. If you’re lucky, you might even get to see a coat of snow painting the ground, trees and rooftops in a shimmering white. It also may be the most challenging season for artists to depict, but here is Bridgeman’s pick of some of the finest winter paintings from this chilly period:

Snow Scene-Wanstead Park, Nils Hans Christiansen (late 19th century) / Chenil Galleries, London, UK / Bridgeman Images

Winter, 1573 (oil on canvas), Giuseppe Arcimboldo, (1527-93) Louvre, Paris, France Bridgeman Images

Drum bridge and Setting Sun Hill at Meguro, from the series '100 Views of Edo', pub. by Uoya Eikichi, 1857, (oban size, colour woodblock print), Utagawa (1797-1858) / Roger Nyle Parisious Collection / Bridgeman Images

The Four Seasons- Winter, 1755 (oil on canvas), Francois Boucher, (1703-70) Frick Collection, New York, USA Bridgeman Images

Winter Morning - Engadine (oil painting on canvas), Ivan Fedorovich Choultse (1874-1939) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

In the Wild North, 1891 (oil on canvas, Winter images), Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-98) / Kiev Museum of Ukranian Art, Ukraine / Bridgeman Images

The Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch, 1795 (oil on canvas), Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh / Bridgeman Images

The Shortening Winter's Day is Near a Close (oil on canvas), Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935) / Lady Lever Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool / Bridgeman Images

View of Roofs (Snow Effect) or Roofs under Snow, 1878 (oil on canvas), Gustave Caillebotte, (1848-94) / Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images

Snow, Times Square 1, 2008 (oil on canvas), Bill Jacklin (b.1943) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

Winter Landscape, 1909 (oil on canvas), Wassily Kandinsky, (1866-1944) / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia / Bridgeman Images

Snowy Landscape (oil on canvas), Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) / Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images

Hunters in the Snow (Winter), 1565 (oil on wood), Pieter the Elder Bruegel (c.1525-69) / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria / Bridgeman Images

Winter Landscape, 1879 (oil on canvas), Paul Gauguin, (1848-1903) / Museum of Fine Arts (Szepmuveszeti) Budapest, Hungary / Bridgeman Images

 The Polar Sea, 1824 (oil on canvas), Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) / Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany / Bridgeman Images

Winter Landscape with a Church, c.1811 (oil on canvas), Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images

Winter Landscape, 1915 (oil on canvas), Edvard  Munch, (1863-1944) / Private Collection / Photo © Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images

Snow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris, 1886 (oil on canvas), Signac, Paul (1863-1935) / Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA / Bequest of Putnam Dana McMillan / Bridgeman Images

Winter Landscape in Moonlight, 1919 (oil on canvas), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) / Detroit Institute of Arts, USA / Gift of Curt Valentin / Bridgeman Images

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