How Cold It Is!
| How Cold It Is! | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Giuseppe De Nittis |
| Year | 1874 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 54 cm × 73 cm (21 in × 29 in) |
| Location | Applied Arts Collection, Milan |
How Cold It Is! (Italian: Che Freddo!) is an 1874 genre painting by the Italian artist Giuseppe De Nittis.[1][2] It depicts two fashionably-dressed Parisian ladies walking in a park on a cold, wintery day while a governess accompanies a small girl nearby. In the background a carriage waits for them.[3]
De Nittis had moved to France and become closely associated with the emerging Impressionist movement. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1874 in Paris, the same year that De Nittis also took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition. Amongst the work's admirers was Edgar Degas who acquired an engraving based on it.[4]
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- Dumas, Ann. Degas and the Italians in Paris. National Galleries of Scotland, 2003.
- Carter, Karen L. & Waller, Susan Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914. Routledge, 2017.
- Crepaldi, Gabriele The Impressionists. Collins, 2002.