Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675)

• Was a French painter born in Rome.
• Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife.
• He has been considered as a French painter, although in fact he never visited France.
• Between around 1631 and 1635 he became a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, who had married his sister Anne five years earlier.
• Because of this connection he was widely known as "Gaspard Poussin."
• After he left 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.

• He specialised in painting landscapes of the Roman Campagna. 

• He worked with Pier Francesco Mola, Cozza, and Mattia Preti at the Palazzo Pamphilj in Valmontone. 

• He often collaborated with Guillaume Courtois.

• Dughet died in Rome on 25 May 1675.

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