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Gaspard Dughet "Eenige landschappen" antique engraving, 1685-1744

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Gaspard Dughet "Eenige landschappen" antique engraving, 1685-1744

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Gaspard Dughet, "Eenige landschappen", antique engraving, 1685-1744.

Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was the brother-in-law of Nicolas Poussin. He was an important landscape painter of the 17th century, most of his subjects being drawn from the areas around Rome. He was very popular in his lifetime and again in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Engraver Isaak de Moucheron.

Condition as shown in the photographs.

Dimensions 25x16 cm.

For comparison see the British Museum collection, which holds an example from this series:

Eenige landschappen

Object type
- print
Museum number

S.5209
Title (series)
- Eenige landschappen
Description

Landscape with two figures in conversation in left foreground, a third one reclining on the shore of a lake at right, trees on either side, a cliff overlooking the lake at left, mountains in the distance
Etching
Producer name
- After: Gaspard Dughet
- Print made by: Isaak de Moucheron
School/style
- Dutch
Date
- 1685-1744
Production place
- Published in: Amsterdam
- (Europe,Netherlands,Holland,Noord-Holland,Amsterdam)
Materials
- paper
Technique
- etching
Dimensions
- Height: 165 millimetres
- Width: 254 millimetres
Inscriptions
- - Inscription Content
    Lettered in lower margin: "G. Poussin Pinxit" and "I. d'Moucheron Fecit".
Curator's comments

This is one from a series of ten, for comment see U,9.61. For another impression see also U,9.65.
After the painting now in Montréal, Dominion Gallery.
Bibliography
- Hollstein 42
- Boisclair 1986 G.129
Location

Not on display (D+F XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)
Subjects
- landscape
Acquisition name
- Purchased from: William Smith, the printseller
- Previous owner/ex-collection: John Sheepshanks (L.2333)
Department

Prints & Drawings
Registration number

S.5209