Focus on this artwork and explain the Composition.
The overall colour scheme is predominantly muted grey, lacking the presence of green, as if to encapsulate a wintry and overcast atmosphere, where no strong source of light illuminates the image - thus creating a lack of shadows. Manet uses earthly and muted tones to illustrate an urban snow landscape; between the large peaks of white and diagonals of murky brown the Paris district of Petit-Montrouge is depicted, overshadowed by the brown dirty snow and bleak beige sky. The buildings in the background were painted with muted colours to give an appearance of balancing precariously on a huge expanse of brown.
Petit-Montrouge