Bulletin 22, 1973
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Gaspard Dughet: A New Drawing
Related to the Colonna Gouaches
by Marco Chiarini
Article
en français
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Until now only four
drawings could be identified which correspond to one of Gaspard
Dughet's most important series, the gouache landscape paintings in
the Colonna Gallery in Rome. A fifth characteristic example in the:
National Gallery of Canada (fig. 2) corresponds to one of these
paintings which were executed in the early 1650's (fig. I). A
similar drawing in Düsseldorf (fig. 3) can be directly related to a
fresco landscape also commissioned by the Colonna family in those
years. The Ottawa sheet is characterized by a soft and atmospheric
handling suffused with luminosity, and it is typically a highly
finished composition worked out in the studio on the basis of nature
studies. The rather wild and picturesque landscape style is indebted
to the romantic works of Salvator Rosa, who had just returned to Rome
in 1649.
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