Coignet – Lake Nemi in the Alban Hills

Jules Coignet
(1798 Paris – 1860 Paris)

THE NEMISEE IN THE ALBANIAN MOUNTAINS

Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm, signed lower left: Coignet

Exhibition: Exposition Corot au Musée Daubigny, 23 March–22 September 2019

Literature: Camille Corot, 1796–1875, Musée Daubigny, 23 March–22 September 2019, exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 25

Lake Nemi is a crater lake in the volcanic complex of Vulcano Laziale, 30 km from Rome, and one of the favourite motifs of classical and romantic landscape painting.