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Description: | Dughet specialised in Roman campagna scenes with figures and classical ruins though this mountainous scene seems more remote. Dughet was apprenticed to Poussin, who had married Dughet's sister. Poussin encouraged him to select fine views in the countryside around Rome and insisted that he should master the rudiments of figure drawing. The deep and lasting affection between master and apprentice explains why Dughet became known as Gaspard Poussin. Most writers following Pascoli have divided Dughet's career into three periods. His first landscapes being described as 'a little dry,' in his second period he developed a more learned style, closer to that of his teacher; with his late works being more intimate and original. Dughet enjoyed great prestige in Britain, and his paintings were enthusiastically collected there, especially those from the last period, of which the Salford painting could be a copy. He became one of the foremost models for British landscape painters, admired above all for his selection of picturesque motifs, his realism and the lucid structure of his works. | Subjects: | buildings and gardens (classical ruins); figure (on horseback) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8394... | Go to resource |
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