Rocky Landscape with Hunters, by Gaspard Dughet, c. 1635
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Rocky Landscape with Hunters

Gaspard Dughet (French, 1615–1675)

c. 1635

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Framed: 159 x 201 x 12 cm (62 5/8 x 79 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 127 x 175.2 cm (50 x 69 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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About this work

Dughet spent his whole career in Rome. At the age of fifteen he entered the studio of Nicolas Poussin (1593/94-1665), who married his sister. Dughet concentrated exclusively on landscapes, preferring a rugged type of scenery, widely imitated well into the 18th century.