La Neige, Soleil Couchant (1907)
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Jean François Raffaëlli's 1907 masterpiece "La Neige, Soleil Couchant"—"The Snow, Sunset" in English—captures a serene winter landscape at dusk. The soft glow of the setting sun bathes the snowy scene in warm pastel hues, creating a striking contrast against the cool, blue-tinted snow that blankets the ground.Raffaëlli adeptly uses delicate line work and a muted color palette to depict a string of modest houses and sparse trees scattered across a snow-covered hill. The houses, outlined by thin brushstrokes, appear cozy and inviting against the chill of a winter's evening. Smoke gently rises from a chimney, adding an element of life and warmth to the composition, evoking the quiet comfort of a rural evening in the dead of winter.Foreground elements, like a wooden shack and a dilapidated fence, are sketched with detail that draws the viewer's eye, leading it across the varied textures and forms of the landscape. The trees, nearly bare, twist slightly under the weight of winter, their branches etched against the glowing sky in a dance of shadows and light.This painting not only highlights Raffaëlli’s skill as a landscape artist but also captures the haunting beauty of winter’s dual nature—its severity and its tranquility.
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Jean-François Raffaëlli was a French realist painter, sculptor, and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. He was also active as an actor and writer.
Born in Paris, he was of Tuscan descent through his paternal grandparents. He showed an interest in music and theatre before becoming a painter in 1870. One of his landscape paintings was accepted for exhibition at the Salon in that same year.