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| | BBC - Painting the Weather - The Church of Petit Montrouge |
 | | The bold brushstrokes suggest that he worked at great speed (it would have been cold!), and his muted palette of browns, beige, grey and white convey the dull daylight of midwinter. |
 | | The painting was made during the Franco-Prussian war (July 1870 - May 1871), when Manet, a member of the French National Guard, was stationed in Montrouge on the outskirts of Paris. |
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