John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society
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OP.732
Winter Landscape with Barn
Alternate title: Winter, Near Paris
ca. 1885
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 18 in. (31.1 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman–
Private collection
Exhibitions
1886 J. Eastman Chase's Gallery possibly
J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, January 19–30, 1886, no. 4, as Winter, Near Paris.
1886 St. Botolph Club probably
St. Botolph Club, Boston, Spring Exhibition, April 15–May 1, 1886, no. 99.
2006 Spanierman
Spanierman Gallery, New York, John Twachtman (1853–1902): A "Painter's Painter," May 4–June 24, 2006. (Nelson 2006); (Parkes 2006); (Peters 2006–I); (Peters 2006–II); (Peters 2006–III); (Peters 2006–IV), no. 21, as Winter Landscape with Barn, shown only in New York. Traveled to: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, July 13–October 29, 2006.
Literature
Boston Evening Transcript 1886
"Paintings and Pastels by J. H. Twachtman." Boston Evening Transcript, January 23, 1886, p. 6, as Winter, Near Paris.
Peters 2006–IV
Peters, Lisa N. "Catalogue." In John Twachtman (1853–1902): A "Painter's Painter", by Lisa N. Peters. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue (2006 Spanierman), pp. 120–21 ill. in color, as Winter Landscape with Barn.
Commentary

Twachtman's solo exhibition at J. Eastman Chase's Gallery, Boston, held in January 1886, included two winter scenes. One was Along the River, Winter (OP.733)—number 7 in the show. The other, exhibited as Winter, Near Paris (number 4 in the show), was probably this painting. In Along the River Winter, Twachtman's view was across a broad snow-covered landscape (probably a frozen river), broken by carriage tracks but here the snow surface is firm and intact, with no indication of the route to the farm in the right distance. Reviewing Twachtman's show at Chase's in 1886 for the Boston Evening Transcript, a reviewer contrasted the two winter scenes in the exhibition with the key work on view, Windmills (OP.749), which was exhibited with the title of Hollandsch Diep, stating: "This picture [Hollandsh Diep] shows little study and is only an impression, but the two winter scenes are very different, and while they possess all the qualities of objective truth held by the more sketchy pictures, they are still complete in themselves. The effect of snowy air filling No. 7 is absolutely true, as is also the diffused light in No. 4."