![Claude Monet - The Road to Epinay, Snow Effect (Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige) [1875]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/676/21997679158_ea949efe2a_o.jpg)
Resplendent with the glimmer and frosty sheen of snow and ice, Le Chemin d'Epinay, effet de neige, painted in 1875, depicts the trodden road leading into the town of Épinay-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris. This picture dates from the height of Monet's involvement with the Impressionist group in Paris, when the artist was considered the premier landscape painter among the group. The present work may have been included in the historic second group showing of the Impressionists in 1876, as both it and a picture currently in the collection of the Albright-Knox Gallery match the description of one listed in the 1876 catalogue.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 24 x 99.5 cm]