Lago di Piediluco, Umbria Camille the painting was probably made

the painting was probably made in the Burgundian Netherlands and remains one of the earliest images of the battle

Van Aelst was one of the most successful and influential still-life painters of the 17th century

is fluently painted in his most freely Impressionist style

the two right-hand windows on the main floor

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

Lago di Piediluco, Umbria Camille the painting was probably madePainted on a warm summer's day in 1826 from a site overlooking the lake of Piediluco in the district of Terni, north of Rome. Corot used this sketch as a model for the background of two paintings of the 1860s, Italian Landscape with Morning Sun (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles) and Souvenir of Italy (Corcoran Gallery, Washington).