Classical Landscape and Figures in a Tondo (after Dughet)
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1670 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
483 mm (19 in) Diameter
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872558
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (circular), Classical Landscape and Figures in a Tondo (after Dughet), Italian school, late 17th century. A circular painting showing figures resting by a stream in a mountainous landscape; buildings among trees beyond. This is one of a pair and a copy of one of two pairs of tondi by Gaspard Dughet at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist after Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jean François Millet the elder (Antwerp 1642 - Paris 1679) , artist