Fox in the Snow (French: Le Renard dans la neige) is an 1860 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Courbet.Fried p.327 It depicts a fox in winter in the process of savaging a rodent it has caught. This offers a striking contrast of colours between the fox's coat, red blood and white snow. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1861 in Paris.https://salons.musee-orsay.fr/Detail/objects/111430 Today it is in the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas.https://dma.org/art/collection/object/5290016 The painting was a likely influence on The Dead Fox, a painting by future impressionist Edgar Degas .Tinterow & Loyrette p.368
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Bibliography Fried, Michael. Courbet's Realism. University of Chicago Press, 1992. Tinterow, Gary & Loyrette, Henri. Origins of Impressionism. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.