Gaspard Dughet

Training under Nicolas Poussin is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Perugia and Florence. Works named in the authority record are Italian Landscape, Landscape and Landscape with Huntsmen, Mountains and a Lake. Work by Gaspard Dughet is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Auckland Art Gallery and Tate.

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. Between around 1631 and 1635 he became a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, who had married his sister Anne five years earlier. Because of this connection he was widely known as "Gaspard Poussin." After leaving Poussin's studio his works developed a more fluid style and developed his pictures of storms which account for 30 out of his 400 known works. 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 Palazzo Colonna. 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. Dughet died in Rome on 25 May 1675.