H. E. Coleman | Roman Castle - Rispoli Castle Lake Nemi. 1861

Watercolour on cardboard, a work dated 1861 and signed Hery Coleman depicting a landscape that should coincide with the view of the Castle of Rispoli over Lake Nemi, an area dear to the painter who frequented it with pleasure and which he often reproduced in views made in watercolour.

Lake Nemi has been known since antiquity as Diana's mirror, the name in fact deriving from Nemus Dianae ("sacred wood of Diana"): on the shores are the remains of the temple dedicated to the goddess of hunting, personification of plant and animal life.

Good state of preservation mis.48x30 excluding frame