By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
Gaspard Dughet, known to Ruskin as Gaspard Poussin, Landscape in the Roman Campagna (near Ariccia?) (c.1670) (Oil on canvas, 49 x 66.7 cm). National Gallery, no. 98. The 1995 National Gallery Catalogue notes that it is possible the landscape represents a view of the countryside around Rome but suggests that the 'traditional location of the view at Ariccia', shared by Ruskin, is now less certain ( Baker and Henry, National Gallery Catalogue, p.201). The painting was probably made as a pendant to Dughet's Landscape in the Roman Campagna (near Albano?) (c.1670); National Gallery, no. 68. The painting was bequested to the National Gallery by Holwell Carr in 1831.
Gaspar Dughet 1615-75
Landscape in the Roman Campagna c.1670
Oil on canvas, 49x66.7cm
Provenance: Probably in the Corsini collection, Rome by 1787; collection of William Young Ottley by 1800; bought by Holwell Carr in 1818; his bequest, 1831
Further Comments: This work is described as a town on a hill with thirty-two bushes of the same size. It is questioned whether this painting is supposed to resemble the ancient 'Ariccia' which is also now referred to as 'La Riccia', close to Albano.
Collection: National Gallery, London