“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snow Storm
10 beautiful winter landscape paintings by famous artists
1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (1565)
2. Hendrick Averkamp, Winter Landscape with Skaters (1608)
3. Caspar David Friedrich, Winterlandschaft (1811)
4. Hokusai, Tea House at Koishikawa. The Morning After a Snowfall, (183o)
5. Claude Monet, The Magpie (1868-69)
6. Édouard Manet, Effet de neige à Petit-Montrouge (1870)
7. Vincent van Gogh, Snow-covered field with a harrow (after Millet) (1889)
8. Alfred Sisley, A Village Street in Winter (1893)
9. Paul Gauguin, Breton Village in the Snow (1894)
10. Franz Marc, Hocken im Schnee (1911)