Rocky Landscape with Figures
Gaspard Dughet
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk counterproof, heightened with white chalk, on blue wove paper, tipped onto cream wood-pulp laminate board
Dimensions
20.9 × 30.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81337
About the Artist
Gaspard Dughet · 1615–1675
He was famed as a distinguished landscape painter working in Rome in the 17th century, painting decorative frescoes and easel paintings for major Roman patrons, including Pope Innocent X and the Colonna family. He is linked to a new genre of landscape, the storm scene, however his most characteristic works depict the beauty of the scenery around Rome, particularly near Tivoli. He was particularly ...