Gaspard dughet biography

French painter

Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.

Life

Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook ^[1] and his Italian wife.^[2] He has always generally been considered as a French painter, although in fact he never visited France.^[1] Between around 1631 and 1635 he became a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, who had married his sister Anne five years earlier.^[1] Because of this connection he was widely known as "Gaspard Poussin."^[2] After leaving Poussin's studio his works developed a more fluid style and developed his pictures of storms which account for 30 out of his 400 known works.

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He specialised in painting landscapes of the Roman Campagna^[4] becoming, along with his exact contemporary Salvator Rosa, one of the two leading landscape painters of his time.^[1] He painted several cycl