Vincent van Gogh
Disillusioned with Parisian artists’ café society and the oppressive gloom of the urban winter, Vincent van Gogh left Paris in mid-February 1888 to find rejuvenation in the healthy atmosphere of sun-drenched Arles. When he stepped off the train in the southern city, however, he was confronted by a snowy landscape, the result of a record cold spell.
"Theo," Van Gogh wrote to his brother, "I am decidedly not a landscape painter; when I make landscapes there will always be something of a figure in them.” It seems an odd thing to say if untrue so let's take him at his word: we don't see any figure on this painting.
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