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GEORGE INNESS

American, 1825-1894

Lake Nemi, 1874

oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left "G. Inness 1874"
20 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (52.1 x 77.5 cm.), Frame: 31 3/4 x 41 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (80.6 x 106 x 11.4 cm.)

  • Provenance: Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts, 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; Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois, September 28, 2014, lot 172; Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut and New York, New York; Private Collection, Connecticut.
  • Notes: 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.
  • Condition: in overall very good to excellent condition, lined canvas, some slight crazing, a few very minor areas of restoration visible under UV

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