Lake Albano, Sunset
This painting shows a green landscape from an elevated viewpoint. In the distance, light blue water meets a pale-yellow sky, and the sun casts a golden glow over the landscape. Closest to us is a shore covered in overlapping greenery and several round trees. There is a small hill on the right, with a small gray structure sitting atop it. At the bottom, two indistinct brown animals graze on a dirt mound. Behind them, another gray building is tucked away behind bushes and trees. Golden clouds drift across the sky.
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Details
- Artist
- George Inness
- Date
- c. 1874
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 76.5 x 114.4 cm (30 1/8 x 45 1/16 in.) framed: 93.4 x 130.8 x 5.1 cm (36 3/4 x 51 1/2 x 2 in.)
- Department
- CAB
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Alice Dodge in memory of her father, Henry Percival Dodge
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes and Waterscapes Both · 99%
The title and museum description identify a lake landscape; the image centers water, shoreline, vegetation, and distant terrain.
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Times of Day Both · 99%
The title specifies sunset, and the image visibly shows a low glowing sun and warm evening light across the sky and water.
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Water Both · 98%
The museum title names Lake Albano, and a substantial body of water is clearly visible across the middle distance.
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Atmospheric Landscapes Visual · 93%
The distant water, shoreline, and sky dissolve into soft luminous transitions, creating a pronounced atmospheric effect.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 97%
Olive, moss, deep green, brown, ocher, and muted gold dominate the land and foreground, balanced by subdued blue-gray water and sky.
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Dark Colors Visual · 92%
The foreground and right hillside are substantially darker and denser than the illuminated sky and water.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Both · 99%
The museum metadata identifies the work as oil on canvas, and the image visibly presents an applied-paint composition.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Both · 98%
The museum dates the work circa 1874, placing it within nineteenth-century art.
Source & rights
George Inness. Lake Albano, Sunset. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 6,908 × 4,627 · National Gallery Of Art · Available