American Landscapes of the Late 19th and 20th-Centuries
American (1825-1894)
Lake Nemi, 1874
Oil on canvas, 20 ¼ x 30 ½ inches
Signed and dated G. Inness 1874 lower right
Provenance
Possibly Doll and Richards, Boston, 1876, no. 5 (incorrectly titled as Lake Nemi, from Tivoli)
Mr. Hugh McBirney Johnston
By descent to the Hugh Johnston Hubbard Trust, Lake Forest, Illinois
Note
This work is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Inness authority, Mr. Michael Quick, dated July 10, 2008. A detailed compositional study is included in the catalogue raisonné at no. 470 and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.