I have at last found a suitable spot and settled her. I have already spend a few days working and started eight canvases, which I hope, if the weather favours me, will give an idea of Norway and the environs of Christiania... This morning I was painting under constant falling snow. You would have burst out laughing seeing me white all over, my beard overgrown with icicles.

1895 letter from Sandviken to Gustave Geffroy, late January 1895; In Geoffrey (1922, vol 2 pp. 87,88), cited in: Nathalia Brodskaya, Claude Monet, 2011, p. 106 - 1890–1900