Gaspard Poussin; real name Gaspard Dughet (b.1615 d.1675). An Italian-French landscape painter. Dughet was a pupil of Nicolas Poussin, the French painter who married his sister. Dughet trained in Poussin's studio between 1630-5. The dates of Dughet's work, with the exception of his frescoes on the History of the Carmelite Order, are not verified and chronologies of his development as a painter are based on stylistic commentary. Although twentieth-century critics generally regard Dughet's work as inferior to Claude and owing a great debt to Poussin, he was highly regarded in his own lifetime and by collectors in the eighteenth century. Ruskin's view of Gaspard Poussin was negative; his view of Gaspard Poussin's perception of nature was particularly critical.