Landscape with Figures and Cattle by a Stream with a Castle in the distance
manner of Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1615 - 1675
Materials
oil on canvas
Measurements
889 x 1334 mm (35 x 52½ in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108915
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Figures and Cattle by a Stream with a Castle in the distance, in the manner of Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675). River landscape with a castle or fortified monastery on a rock and two herdsmen in conversation in the foreground. This picture is a copy of one in the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, that was formerly in the collection of the Earls of Swinton at Masham, Yorkshire. Dughet's drawing for which is in the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf. Dughet (who took his name from his teacher and brother-in-law Nicholas Poussin) was immensely popular with the English in the 18th century, and was one of those artists who conditioned their way of seeing landscape, and designed their parks and gardens. Demand for his paintings outran supply so it is unsurprising that they were much copied. At least one other copy of this painting is known in an English private collection. How and when it was acquired is uncertain, but it may have been one of a pair bought (as a Poussin) by the picture dealer William Kent for the 1st Lord Scarsdale from the collection of the Marchese Arnaldi in Florence.
Provenance
Possibly one of a pair bought (as a Poussin) by the picture dealer William Kent (fl. 1742-1761) for the 1st Lord Scarsdale from the collection of the Marchese Arnaldi in Florence in 1758; and thence by descent until gifted to the National Trust in 1986 by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Makers and roles
manner of Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Andrea Schiavone (Zadar c.1500 - Venice 1563), artist