In 'Of the Teachers of Turner', Modern Painters III (1856), Ruskin argues that '[t]here was a certain foolish elegance in Claude, and a dull dignity in Gaspar; but then their work resembled nothing that ever existed in the world' ( Works, 5.408). Dughet's (known to Ruskin as Gaspard Poussin) landscape painting, in Ruskin's view, idealized and distorted nature. Anthony Blunt notes that Dughet's work 'conveys vividly the bare and rugged character of certain parts of the more mountainous country round Rome, which neither Poussin nor Claude seems to have appreciated' ( Blunt, Art and Architecture in France, p.184).