By:Liu Xutong | «©MuséeMarmottanMonet, Académiedesbeaux-arts,Paris» Executed in 1879, this view of Paris under snow is one of Pissarro’s first paintings of the French capital. Indeed,it was not until 1893 that he really took the city as a full-fledged subject in a series that he would continue working on for the rest of his career. That makes this work exceptional. The boulevard, one of the many recently opened up by Baron Haussmann, is not identified but could well have been located close to the artist’s pied-à-terre in Montmartre. The framing and the viewpoint, only just hi...