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Dec 21, 2022, 17 tweets

Today is the winter solstice - the first day of the season. So here is a thread of the most beautiful paintings of winter:

The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

The Magpie by Claude Monet (1869)

Travellers on Horseback in the Snow by Hiroshige (1837)

Winter Landscape by Nicolaes Molenaer (1670s)

Deep Snow by Hans Baluschek (1918)

Flowers of a Hundred Generations by Kamisaka Sekka (1909)

Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church (1865)

Ice on the River Drava by Franz Josef Felsner (1766)

In the Wild North by Ivan Shishkin (1892)

Morning After Snowfall by Katsushika Hokusai (1831)

Snow-covered Field with a Harrow by Vincent van Gogh (1890)

The Pure Whiteness of Winter by Xu Jing (1441)

The Shortening Winter's Day is Near a Close by Joseph Farquharson (1903)

Winter Evening by Henri Duhem (1890s)

Snow in Mukojima by Kawase Hasui (1931)

Snow on the Haystacks, Morning by Claude Monet (1891)

Rather, this is Claude Monet's The Magpie...

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