Gaspard Dughet also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter

Painting

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 born in Rome

Rome

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A pupil of Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. His work serves as an alternative to the dominant Baroque style of the 17th century...

, Gaspard Dughet was the brother of Poussin's wife. He devoted himself to landscape

Landscape art

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 painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in tempera

Tempera

Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium . Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium. Tempera paintings are very long lasting, and examples from the 1st centuries AD still exist...

 representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna Palace; but one of his finest easel

Easel

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-pictures, the Sacrifice of Abraham, formerly the property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the National Gallery

National Gallery, London

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, London. He worked with Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome.-Biography:Mola was born at Coldrerio . At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter...

, Cozza

Francesco Cozza (painter)

Francesco Cozza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome and apprenticed with Domenichino...

, and Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta.- Biography :Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was sometimes called Il Cavalier Calabrese...

 at the Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone

Valmontone

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. The fresco

Fresco

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es executed by Dughet in San Martino ai Monti

San Martino ai Monti

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 are in a bad state of preservation. The Louvre

Louvre

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does not possess a single work by his hand. Dughet died in Rome on 27 May 1675.