内米湖景色Lake Nemi_1872__乔治·英尼斯油画作品欣赏。
内米湖位于罗马东南约17英里处的一座死火山的火山口中，是英尼斯和其他欧美艺术家最喜欢的主题。该湖位于阿尔巴尼亚山上，这是一个美丽的树木繁茂的地区，自古以来一直是远离炎热、疟疾肆虐的罗马夏季的乡村胜地。因尼斯在两次意大利之行（1851-52年和1870-74年）期间访问了尼米湖，并于1872年夏天在邻近的阿尔巴诺湖的甘多夫城堡度过。他至少在九幅画中描绘了尼米湖。在目前的绘画中，Inness包括尼米镇，由科隆纳城堡独特的圆塔标识，在左边和湖对面的Genzano镇。这幅画是为最近重新发现的1874年更大的作品而进行的研究，目前这幅作品是私人收藏。
因尼斯选择了内米湖的一个突出的前景，从中可以看出他的观点。早在18世纪，理查德·威尔逊（李察威尔逊）（“尼米湖”，1760年，私人收藏）和德比的约瑟夫·赖特（约瑟夫·莱特）（“尼米湖）”，日落，1790年，卢浮宫博物馆 等艺术家就曾在几乎相同的地点绘制过这一场景。英尼斯在晨光中描绘了这一场景，并在前景中填充了陡峭倾斜的湖岸附近黑暗而强烈的轮廓，从而创造了一幅强烈的构图。他把远处的湖面和天空渲染成浅色，产生朦胧的远景效果。
Lake Nemi, which fills the crater of an extinct volcano about seventeen miles southeast of Rome, was a favorite subject for both Inness and other American and European artists. The lake is situated in the Alban Hills, a beautiful wooded area which has served as a rural retreat from the hot, malarial Roman summers since ancient times. Inness visited the Lake Nemi during both of his trips to Italy (1851-52 and 1870-74) and spent the summer of 1872 in Castel Gandolfo on neighboring Lake Albano. He depicted Lake Nemi in at least nine paintings. In the present painting, Inness included the town of Nemi, identified by the distinctive round tower of the Colonna castle, on the left and across the lake the town of Genzano. This painting is a study for a recently rediscovered larger work from 1874 which is presently in a private collection.
Inness chose one of the outstanding prospects of Lake Nemi from which to take his view. As early as the eighteenth century, artists such as Richard Wilson ("Lake Nemi," 1760, private collection) and Joseph Wright of Derby ("Lake Nemi, Sunset," 1790, Mus茅e du Louvre) had painted the scene from nearly the same spot. Inness created a strong composition by portraying the scene in the morning light and filling the foreground with the dark, strong silhouette of the near side of the steeply sloped lake shore. He rendered the far side of the lake and sky in lighter colors, producing the effect of a hazy distant view.
