Full Record |
| Title |
Classical Landscape |
| Collection |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
| Artist |
Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) |
| Date Earliest |
about 1650 |
| Date Latest |
about 1660 |
| Description |
Dughet was the pupil and brother-in-law of the artist, Nicholas Poussin. Dughet's atmospheric scenes are adorned with ancient ruins and figures in classical costume illuminated by a soft evening light. Here, the diminishing size of the figures from foreground to middle-distance helps to create the illusion of recession into the landscape. Dughet uses the mounted figures in the centre to lead the eye into the scene from left to right, then back to the left where the great tree closes the composition. |
| Current Accession Number |
1951P104 |
| Former Accession Number |
P.104´51 |
| Subject |
landscape (classical) |
| Measurements |
121.9 x 144.8 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Purchased from Messrs. Tooth 1951. |
| Provenance |
Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey; Bedford sale, Christie's, 19 July 1951, lot 47, bought by J. A. Tooth. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Paintings by Wilson, Gaspard Etc, J. A. Tooth Galleries, 1951, cat. no. 3; Old Master Paintings from the City of Birmingham, Wildenstein and Co. Ltd, cat. no. 19, ill.; Royal Academy, London, 1970, cat. no. 19, ill. |
| Publications |
Toynbee, Paget, 'Walpole's Journals of visits to country seats', The Walpole Society, vol. 16, 1927-8, p. 18; Waagen, G.F., (trans. Lady Eastlake), Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, p. 456; Scharf, A., Catalogue of Pictures at Woburn Abbey, 1877, I, p. 244, no. 403; 'Perspex. Current Shows and Comments', Apollo, pp. 1148-9, ill.; Illustrations, 1952, p. 35; Wright, C., 1976, p. 164; Boisclair, M.-N., 1978, cat. B. 11; Boisclair, M.-N., Gaspar Dughet - sa vie et son oeuvre (1615 - 1675), Paris, 1986, p. 219, no. 148, ill. Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983, no. 47, ill. |
| Notes |
Probably one of the paintings by Dughet seen by Horace Walpole in the Salon at Woburn Abbey in October 1751. |
| Rights Owner |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
| Author |
Dr Patricia Smyth |
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