Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) - The Magpie (La Pie), 1868-69 (Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris) - Monet was a master of the winter scene, he painted more than 100 of them, and when Edouard Manet saw the Impressionist’s snowscapes he abandoned any effort to make his own. This is Monet’s largest…