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The First Snow

(American, 1858–1925)
1906
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions65.72 x 73.66 cm (25 7/8 x 29 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow
Accession number23.483
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower right: W.L. METCALF. 1906.
ProvenanceBy 1907, with Montross Gallery, New York. By 1910, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Boston; 1923, bequest of Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow to the MFA.
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