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 winter painting, depicting a single black bird on a fence in Etretat, but what’s most thrilling about the work is the shadows on the snow, done not in black but in a convention-shocking blue…