Micheline Cannaut-Utz, active around 1920-1940

Here, the scene takes place in a cozy interior: armchairs, table, lamp lit.
The soft, colorful artificial light contrasts with the cold, bluish light of the snowy landscape visible through the window.

The brushwork is supple, vibrant, sometimes slightly impastoed, and the palette plays on the contrast between warm interior tones (ochres, reds, purples) and cool exterior tones (blues, grays, whites).

The absence of human figures reinforces the feeling of invisible presence, as if the viewer were entering a place that had been momentarily vacated.