
Landscape, 1650-1660.
'Gaspard Dughet' (also known as 'Gaspard Poussin';
1613 -
May 27,
1675) was a
painter.
The adoptive son of
Nicolas Poussin, he was actually the brother of Poussin's wife. He devoted himself to
landscape painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in
tempera representing various sites near
Rome is to be seen in the
Colonna Palace; but one of his finest
easel-pictures, the ''Sacrifice of Abraham'', formerly the property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the
National Gallery,
London. He worked with
Pier Francesco Mola,
Cozza, and
Mattia Preti at the Palazzo Pamphili in
Valmontone. The
frescoes executed by Gaspard Poussin in
S. Martino di Monti are in a bad state of preservation. The
Louvre does not possess a single work by his hand. Dughet died at Rome on
May 27,
1675.
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