Italian Landscape with Fortifications and a Waterfall

mid-1660s

Gaspard Dughet

Associated Names
Gaspard Dughet

Artist, French, 1615 - 1675

The image depicts a landscape sketched in a monochromatic palette of greys and blacks, with a textured quality. There are dense clusters of foliage in the foreground, detailed leaves frame the edges. In the middle ground, there is a body of water, possibly a river. In the distance, there is a castle or grand building on a hill, surrounded by woods. The style features delicate lines capturing textures of leaves, trees, and rocky cliff faces.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Edward Habich, Boston and Kassel. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin [c. 1840 - 1914] (Lugt 2926); (his sale, F. A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 4-5 October 1917, no. 453). Bernhard Himmelheber, Karlsruhe [1898 - 1966]; by descent to Georg Himmelheber, Munich; (W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.

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Bibliography

2017

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Gaspard Dughet, Italian Landscape with Fortifications and a Waterfall." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 57 (Fall 2017): 33 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Sammlung Rud. Ph. Goldschmidt (1840 - 1914) / Verstegert bei Prestel, [not deciphered] 4.-11.X.1907 / Gaspard Poussin, 1613 - 1675; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64571019

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