"The Sitting" (1889) is worthy of James Tissot, and Nerli's lost work, "The Ascension" (c.1887) was a technical tour de force anticipating aspects of 20th-century art.His landscapes of the Heidelberg period, "Beach Scene, Black Rock" and "Fitzroy Gardens" (both c. 1889) show him combining the new objectivity which superseded romantic landscape with a lyricism worthy of the French Impressionists.