Esquisse pour la mairie de Vanves : Vue de Paris depuis Vanves

Esquisse pour la mairie de Vanves: Vue de Paris depuis Vanves shows the view north from Vanves toward Paris — a panoramic vista that would have been legible from the elevated ground of the commune, with the capital visible across the intervening suburb. Including this view in the Vanves mairie decoration locates the commune within the larger urban geography of the Paris region, affirming its relationship to the capital without surrendering its own local identity. The sketch is among the most spatially ambitious in Schmitt's series.

The panoramic view demands a wider compositional treatment than the other Vanves sketches. Schmitt lays in the distant city as a low-toned mass on the horizon, with foreground and middle ground treated in warmer, more distinct passages.