Gaspard Dughet (1615 - 1675)

Born in Rome as the son of a French chef and an Italian mother, Dughet completed his apprenticeship with his brother-in-law Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). The painter rarely left the Eternal City: short trips to Milan, Perugia, Florence and Naples are documented, but he never set foot on French soil. His first major public commission was a series of landscape frescoes in the church of San Martino ai Monti (1647–1651). Besides his easel paintings, he decorated numerous palaces and villas in Rome. In 1657 he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca.

Author: Habersatter Thomas

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 122