"[3] When Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 the ground was covered with snow[4] due to record cold temperatures.

In a letter to his brother Theo about February 24, 1888, Van Gogh describes having completed three paintings in as many days, one of them "a landscape in the snow.

The audience is drawn in by the road that starts at the lower left hand corner of the frame right towards the trees, hills and snow-covered mountains at the horizon.

If so, he had not left behind the standards used in Dutch landscape paintings which use dark greens and browns within the foreground and blues in the sky.

Instead she offered the White House America, a 2016 18K gold toilet sculpture by contemporary Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, but that installation did not occur.

[6] On November 10, 2023, rapper Aesop Rock released the spoken word track "On Failure" in his ninth studio album Integrated Tech Solutions, with lyrics primarily discussing Landscape with Snow.