Winter in Saint-Petersburg

From a high viewpoint, snow-dusted roofs and rows of chimney pots fill the foreground, with a red-brick building at the center showing lit, green-tinted windows; farther back, domes, a clock tower and slender spires rise above the huddled rooftops toward a pale gray sky.

The watercolor pairs warm brick red and ochre with cool gray-blue shadows on the snow; controlled washes define each roof plane while looser strokes soften the distant skyline, creating a calm, panoramic sense of the city's winter rooftops under flat daylight.