In the context of The Train in the Snow, discuss the Monet and Zola of the Interpretation and reception.
Marian Robinson emphasizes the connection between this work and French novelist Emile Zola's writing. Robinson notes a particular scene in Zola's novel La Bete Humaine that seems to echo the imagery of Monet's The Train in the Snow; she claims that Monet's engine "bloodies" the snow in the same way that is described in Zola's imagined scene, which also features a train caught in a snowfall or blizzard. Additionally, Robinson claims that Monet's colors in The Train in the Snow "tint the dullness," matching "the ominous heaviness of Zola's brief scene." Zola was familiar with Monet's train paintings, writing a positive review about them on display at the Third Impressionist Exhibition held in April 1877. Tucker also notes the similarities between Monet's "poetic" portrayal of the railway in The Train in the Snow and Zola's later writings.
La Bete Humaine Impressionist Emile Zola