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A sheer cliff looming across a deep valley is backlit by a low sunset in this is horizontal landscape painting. The tree closest to us grows up above the canopies of trees that fill the valley and nearly touches the top edge of the composition. Brown buildings clustered near the edge of the cliff are outlined against the sunset sky. Light falls across the landscape from the left, casting the right face of the cliff into shadow. The foot of the cliff angles steeply down to a paler green and gold area, and another ridge of rocky hills extends across the right half of the composition to enclose…

View of Lake Nemi

Jules Coignet (French, 1798 - 1860)

1843 · oil on paper on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Donner

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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