Editing Gaspard Dughet

{{Short description|French painter (1615–1675)}}

[[File:Gaspard Dughet - Aminta about to rescue Silvia - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Aminta About to Rescue Silvia'', c. 1633–35]]
'''Gaspard Dughet''' (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as '''Gaspard Poussin''', was a French painter born in [[Rome]].

==Life==
Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook
<ref name=golden>{{cite book|title=France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century Paintings in American Collections|first=Pierre|last=Rosenberg| chapter=DUGHET Gaspar also known as Gaspar Poussin| publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|page=243|year=1982|isbn=9780870992957|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/France_in_the_Golden_Age_Seventeenth_Century_French_Paintings_in_American_Collections}}</ref> and his Italian wife.<ref name=wallace>{{cite web|title=Treasure of the Month – February 2012|url=http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/115|publisher=Wallace Collectionn|access-date=6 July 2015|archive-date=25 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025093918/http://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/115|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has always generally been considered as a French painter, although in fact he never visited France.<ref name=golden/> Between around 1631 and 1635 he became a pupil of [[Nicolas Poussin]], who had married his sister Anne five years earlier.<ref name=golden/> Because of this connection he was widely known as "Gaspard Poussin."<ref name=wallace/>  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. <ref name="auto">Grove Dictionary of Art vol 9 pps 375 - 378</ref>

He specialised in painting [[Landscape art|landscape]]s of the [[Roman Campagna]]<ref name=EB1911/> becoming, along with his exact contemporary [[Salvator Rosa]], one of the two leading landscape painters of his time.<ref name=golden/> He painted several cycles of frescoes, including one, showing various sites around Rome, at the [[Palazzo Colonna]].<ref name=golden/> He worked with [[Pier Francesco Mola]], [[Francesco Cozza (painter)|Cozza]], and [[Mattia Preti]] at the Palazzo Pamphilj in [[Valmontone]].<ref name=EB1911/>  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.<ref name=trec>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/guillaume-courtois_(Dizionario-Biografico) Simonetta Prosperi Valentini Rodinò, ''Courtois, Guillaume''], in: Treccani, accessed 14 March 2015 {{in lang|it}}</ref>  There is another fresco cycle by Dughet, though in a bad state of preservation,  in [[San Martino ai Monti]].<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Poussin, Nicolas|display=Poussin, Nicolas s.v. Gaspar Poussin|volume=22|page=222}}</ref>

Dughet died in Rome on 25 May 1675.

==Influence==
During the 18th century Dughet's work became especially popular amongst British collectors,<ref name=wallace/> to such an extent that his name became attached to almost any classical landscape,<ref name=golden/> and his style proved influential on British landscape painting and garden design.<ref name=wallace/> His  ''Sacrifice of Abraham'', once the property of the Colonna, is now, with other of his works, in the [[National Gallery]], London.<ref name=EB1911/>  [[Thomas Gainsborough]] and [[John Constable]] were inspired by Dughet and recommended him as a model. <ref name="auto"/>

His pupils included [[Crescenzio Onofri]] (1634–1712/14), Jacques de Rooster ([[fl.]] late 17th century) and [[Jan Frans van Bloemen]] (1662–1749).<ref name="auto"/>

==References==
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==External links==
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