Gaspard Dughet

Gaspard Dughet (Jun 15, 1615 - May 27, 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome. The many years spent in contact with nature, the great passion for hunting, they routed him to landscaping, sometimes expressed in compositional freedom and forms that surpassed the tendencies, tastes and atmospheres of the century.

Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a French painter, although in fact he never visited France.

Her inclination to art was established when her older sister, Anna, married the famous painter Nicolas Poussin, and he was given the opportunity to live for a few years together with the master. This fact, coupled with the strong and decisive influence made by the master, has often affected the critical judgment of Dughet's artistic work, and only recent historical studies have re-evaluated Dughet's career by trying to recover, or rather rewrite, chronology of works, almost absent.

Between the years 1635 and 1637, young Dughet lived in various Italian locations, from Perugia, Naples and Florence, developing his style, partially detached from the master, as evidenced by the series of paintings called Silver Birch Master, characterized by the presence Of the birch tree.

Dughet died in Rome on 27 May 1675.

He specialised in painting landscapes of the Roman Campagna becoming, along with his exact contemporary Salvator Rosa, one of the two leading landscape painters of his time. He painted several cycles of frescoes, including one, showing various sites around Rome, at the Colonna Palace. He worked with Pier Francesco Mola, Cozza, and Mattia Preti at the Palazzo Pamphilj in Valmontone. He often collaborated with Guillaume Courtois who painted the staffage in his landscapes. This was the case, for instance, in the works for the Palazzo Pamphilj. There is another fresco cycle by Dughet, though in a bad state of preservation, in San Martino ai Monti.

His early works, poorly known, were sometimes associated with the works of the Master with Silver Birch. For other authors, these same works date from the youth of Poussin.

After his return to Rome, one of the first official works was The Preaching of a hermit on animals, an anoretic subject followed by frescoes at the church of S.Martino ai Monti. Intense was its activity at the palaces of the most prestigious Roman houses, such as the Pamphiles, the Columns, the Bourghians.

Some of his works, such as Sacrifice of Abraham, are exhibited at the London National Gallery.

He worked with Pier Francesco Mola, Francesco Cozza, and Mattia Preti at Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone.

Works:
The Waterfall of Tivoli (1661), oil on canvas, 99 × 82 cm, The Wallace Collection, London;
Landscape (v.1635), National Gallery, London;
Landscape of mountains with Mary Magdalene (v.1660), Prado Museum, Madrid;
Classical landscape with figures (v.1672-75), Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham;
Landscape (v.1650-60), Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest;
Landscape (View of the Rome countryside) (circa 1650-1660), musée Condé, Chantilly;
Two paintings of Paysage en pendant (circa 1635), musée Condé, Chantilly;
Landscape: The Pilgrims of Emmaus, oil on wood, 27.2 x 41.5 cm, Dijon Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon;
Marine with Jonas rejected by the Whale, oil on canvas, 98.9 × 134 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Rouen;
Landscape with satyr, Pitti palace, Florence;
Landscape with Hunters, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio;
One of his paintings is exhibited at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham;
Landscape, hotel of Agar, Cavaillon.
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