If you want winter tires, then my advice would be to use standard rims ie. 4.5J x 15 ET23.5 front, and 5.5J x 15 ET22 rear.
This will give you a lot of choice in tire sizes, including the standard 155/60R15 front and 175/55R15 rear tire sizes.
Other options include:
145/65R15 front and 175/55R15 rear
165/60R15 front and 185/55R15 rear
165/60R15 front and 195/50R15 rear
155/65R15 front and 175/60R15 rear
155/65R15 front and 185/55R15 rear
145/65R15 front and 165/60R15 rear
165/65R15 front and 185/60R15 rear
The choice partly depends on what matching tires you can get. You will probably find the available choices of matching tires in most of the above sizes severely limited in the US market.
Try good online tire places as most tire shops will be even more limited in choice.
Two other choices are:
175/55R15 front and 195/50R15 rear
175/60R15 front and 195/55R15 rear
but with these two choices a tire dealer could refuse to fit a 175/55 or 175/60 to a 4.5" rim. The tire fitter's guide for these size tires is a rim width from 5" to 6.5". All the other sizes that I mention are compliant with the tire fitter's guide.
All the tire sizes that I have mentioned are fairly close to the outside diameter of the standard 175/55R15 rear tires , except for these options:
165/65R15 front and 185/60R15 rear
175/60R15 front and 195/55R15 rear
195/55R15 rear tires raise the gearing by 3.8% compared to the standard 175/55R15 rear tires, and 185/60R15 rear tires raise the gearing by 5.1% compared to the standard 175/55R15 rear tires. These are big increases and could affect driveability, particularly 1st gear when pulling away from a standstill and top gear when cruising particularly going uphill. However, compared to Brabus rear tires such as 225/35R17 and 205/45R16 the outside diameter of 195/55R15 rear tires is about the same.
Here's an option in the 165/60R15 front and 185/55R15 rear sizes:
Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2 185/55R15 86R
https://www.vulcantire.com/cgi-bin/tiresearch.cgi?p1=185&p2=/55&p3=R15
Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2 165/60R15 81R
https://www.vulcantire.com/cgi-bin/tiresearch.cgi?p1=165&p2=/60&p3=R15
Vulcantire also list Vredestein Quatrac 5 in these sizes which are all-season tires with the 3PMSF Three-Peak Mountain Snow Flake symbol so have reasonable traction in snow. The Hakkapelittas have an R speed rating so are limited to a 106mph top speed. I have never used Vulcantire so this is not a recommendation for this company.