Samuel Colman's watercolor "Wharf at Yonkers" (c.1869-70) takes a slightly different tack, his low viewpoint emphasizing the open sky and the broad stretch of Hudson waterway framed by the Palisades and the North Yonkers hills.
Denis's solidly constructed studies of clouds and hilly Italian landscapes washed in dusty light are irresistible, as are his "View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome" (1800) and "Fortified Wall, Italy" (c. 1786-1806), with their geometric architecture, bathed in afternoon sun, played against sky and foliage.