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Description: | From the 17th century until the middle of the 19th century there was a recognisable tradition of French landscape painting which this work by Dughet represents. The artist would have worked in his studio, not outside from nature. The painting is highly finished. It is difficult to detect individual brushstrokes - the hand of the artist is not visible. This idealised view has a careful and artificially arranged composition. In the foreground, the figures and the repoussoir trees invite the viewer into the painting and help provide a sense of scale. In the middle distance the buildings establish a feeling of space, a space which then recedes further to the horizon in the background. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8306... | Go to resource |
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