How Cold It Is!

How Cold It Is! is an 1874 genre painting by the Italian artist Giuseppe [De Nittis]. It depicts two fashionably-dressed Parisian ladies walking in a park on a cold, wintery day while a governess accompanies a small girl nearby. In the background a carriage waits for them.
De Nittis had moved to France and become closely associated with the emerging Impressionist movement. The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1874 in Paris, the same year that De Nittis also took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition. Amongst the work's admirers was Edgar Degas who acquired an engraving based on it.