Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.
LifeEdit
Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook <ref name=golden>Template:Cite book</ref> and his Italian wife.<ref name=wallace>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 landscapes 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, 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>Simonetta Prosperi Valentini Rodinò, Courtois, Guillaume, in: Treccani, accessed 14 March 2015 Template:In lang</ref> There is another fresco cycle by Dughet, though in a bad state of preservation, in San Martino ai Monti.<ref name=EB1911>{{#if: |
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Dughet died in Rome on 25 May 1675.
InfluenceEdit
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"/>