Gaspard Dughet

Background

Gaspard Dughet was born in Rome, Italy of a French father and an Italian mother on June 6, 1615.

Education

In around 1635 Gaspard became a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, who had married his sister Anne five years earlier.

Career

Gaspard Poussin developed his own subjective view of nature as one of the earliest European landscape painters but later fell under the spell of the calmer and more Classical style of Poussin. An extraordinarily quick worker, Dughet devoted himself to producing large suites of landscapes, one of which, consisting of 25 pictures, may be seen in the Doria-Pamphilly Palace in Rome. His best-known work is the fresco series of the life of Elias (c. 1635) in San Martino ai Monti in Rome.

Achievements

• During the 18th century Dughet's work became especially popular amongst British collectors, to such an extent that his name became attached to almost any classical landscape, and his style proved influential on British landscape painting and garden design. His Sacrifice of Abraham, once the property of the Colonna, is now, with other of his works, in the National Gallery, London.

Connections

Sister:

Anne

brother-in-law:

Nicolas Poussin

References

• Gaspard Dughet: Rome 1615-1675
• Gaspard Dughet, sa vie et son œuvre: 1615-1675 (French Edition)
• GASPARD DUGHET UND DIE IDEALE LANDSCHAFT (Gaspar Dughet and the Ideal Landscape)