Why it matters
A locomotive with dark smoke stands at the snow-covered Argenteuil station. It is a key example of Monet's efforts to combine nature and industry.
Did you know?
- Monet painted more trains than perhaps any other 19th-century artist.
- Argenteuil was his 'commuter stop'.
- Scholars link it to the novels of Émile Zola.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Train in the Snow (CC BY-SA 4.0).
