A Classical Landscape
Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1635 - 1675
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1219 x 1391 mm (48 x 54 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1298191
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Classical Landscape by Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675). A wooded classical landscape with figures are resting by a stream; on the far bank is a classical building among trees; at the right a distant valley.
Provenance
Palazzo Falconieri, Rome (evidence from the engravings) as by Nicolas Poussin; William Young Ottley sale, Christie's, 16 May 1801 (24), as by Nicolas Poussin; Lord Radstock sale, Christie's, 12 May 1826, lot 48 (bought by 'Lord' [recte Wilbraham] Egerton for £252); bequeathed by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874 - 1958) to the National Trust with the house, gardens and contents of Tatton Park
Makers and roles
Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675), artist previously catalogued as by Nicolas Poussin (Les Andeleys, Normandy 1594 – Rome 1665), artist
References
Boisclair 1986: Marie-Nicole Boisclair, Gaspard Dughet, Paris, 1986, nos. B.6 & G.165, pp.294-95 & 363, & fig.636