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Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
canvas: 20 by 26 in.; 50.8 by 66 cm.
Description:
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Markings:
Gaspard Dughet
Condition:
framed: 26 by 32½ in.; 66 by 82.6 cm. The canvas is lined and is stable on its stretcher. The landscape image reads well with some impasto in the trees retained. To the naked eye, frame abrasion is visible along the right edge but is not distracting, and a thin surface scratch measuring about 1 inch is at the center of the top edge. In raking light, the varnish appears streaky in areas but is not obvious in regular light. Under UV inspection, the varnish is milky but an older campaign of restoration is visible along the left edge in the majority of the tree trunk, as well as in the clouds in the sky and scattered spots in the background hills. A few more recent small retouches are visible such as at center. Offered in a simply carved giltwood frame with nicks and losses.
Literature:
J. Stewart Byrne, "Gaspar Dughet and XVIIIth century England, " M.A. thesis, New York University 1942, p. 41; D. Sutton, "Gaspard Dughet: some aspects of his art," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts CIV (June-August 1962) p. 300, reproduced fig. 32; D. Posner, Art in Italy 1600 - 1700, exhibition catalogue, Detroit 1965, under no. 24; M.-N. Boisclair, "Gaspard Dughet: une chronologie révisée," in Revue de l'Art, no. 34 (1976), p. 52; L. Salerno, Pittori di paesaggio del Seicento a Roma, vol. II, Rome 1977 - 1978, p. 526, reproduced fig. 86.18; M.-N. Boisclair, "Gaspard Dughet: étude de sa vie et da son oeuvre," Ph.D. diss., Paris-Sorbonne 1978, pp. 142-143, 221, cat. no. 329; A. French, in Gaspard Dughet called Gaspar Poussin 1615 - 1675. A French landscape painter in seventeenth century Rome and his influence on British art, exhibition catalogue, London 1980, p. 52, under no. 46; M.-N. Boisclair, Gaspard Dughet: sa vie et son oeuvre (1615 - 1675), Paris 1986, p. 286, cat. no. 384, reproduced fig. 420.
Provenance:
Thomas Walker, London, 1741; Colonel R.E.K. Leatham (1885-1946), London; With Colnaghi, London, 1960; Mrs. T.G. Winter, London, by 1986; Thereafter acquired.