Frits THAULOW

River under the snow in 1895

THAULOW Scrits (Oslo, 1847 - Volendam, 1906)

River under snow, c. 1895.

Pastel.

Signed lower left.

Height. 81 Width. 60 cm.

Provenance: private collection, Burgundy.

River under the snow, a pastel by Frits Thaulow around 1895.

Pupil of Jules Bastien-Lepage, and master of Edward Munch Frits Thaulow navigates between naturalism under the influence of the Barbizon school, realism and impressionism. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and confronted with the Paris of the Belle Époque, his sublime views of Venice and its snowy landscapes stand out. A friend of Rodin and Le Sidaner, and familiar with Gauguin by marriage, Frits Thaulow is a pioneer of Norwegian Impressionism. Member of the jury of the 1889 Universal Exhibition, he is a fortiori a figure of Paris at the end of the 19th century. The reflections of snow playing with those of liquid water in a masterful chromatic composition on this pastel are characteristic of his work in 1895, the year of a fruitful escapade in Normandy.