Lake Albano, Sunset
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.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Alice Dodge in memory of her father, Henry Percival Dodge
Accession Number
1962.2.1
About the Artist
George Inness · 1825–1894
George Inness (1825–1894) was an American landscape painter regarded as one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American art, bridging the Hudson River School tradition and a more personal, spiritually-inflected vision of nature. Born near Newburgh, New York, he received limited formal training, studying briefly with Régis François Gignoux, but was largely self-taught, developing h...