View of Ruined Arches and Tomb in Villa Borghese
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over traces of graphite, on blue laid paper incised and blackened on verso for transfer
Dimensions
20.2 × 15.6 cm (8 × 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81293
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 ...