The Villa d'Este in Tivoli and its park were a favourite subject of open-air painters around 1830. Adolf Henning noted the location at the bottom right. He ignored the park and buildings and concentrates entirely on the effect of the evening sky. On the right, the sky is already coloured red by the sunset, on the left it is still blue from the day. The dark cypress trees are harbingers of the night. Henning drew bright reflections into their wet colour with the handle of his Paintbrush. Henning returned to Berlin in the same year he painted this study, became an academy professor there in 1839 and made his living in history and portrait painting.