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Gaspard Dughet (also known as Gaspard Poussin; 1613 – 27 May 1675) was a French painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
.

The adoptive son of Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
, he was actually the brother of Poussin's wife. He devoted himself to landscape
Landscape art

Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition....
 painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in tempera
Tempera

File:Duccio The-Madonna-and-Child-128.jpgTempera is a type of artist's paint and associated Art techniques and materials that were known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and the Middle Ages...
 representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna Palace; but one of his finest easel
Easel

An 'easel' is an upright support used for displaying and/or fixing something resting upon it.The word is an old Germanic synonym for donkey#Other uses ; its equivalent is the only word for both animal and apparatus in various languages, such as Esel in German and Afrikaans and earlier ezel in Dutch , themselves derived from Latin As...
-pictures, the Sacrifice of Abraham, formerly the property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the National Gallery
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
, London.






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Gaspard Dughet (also known as Gaspard Poussin; 1613 – 27 May 1675) was a French painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
.

The adoptive son of Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
, he was actually the brother of Poussin's wife. He devoted himself to landscape
Landscape art

Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition....
 painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in tempera
Tempera

File:Duccio The-Madonna-and-Child-128.jpgTempera is a type of artist's paint and associated Art techniques and materials that were known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and the Middle Ages...
 representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna Palace; but one of his finest easel
Easel

An 'easel' is an upright support used for displaying and/or fixing something resting upon it.The word is an old Germanic synonym for donkey#Other uses ; its equivalent is the only word for both animal and apparatus in various languages, such as Esel in German and Afrikaans and earlier ezel in Dutch , themselves derived from Latin As...
-pictures, the Sacrifice of Abraham, formerly the property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the National Gallery
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
, London. He worked with Pier Francesco Mola
Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola was an Italy painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome....
, Cozza
Francesco Cozza (painter)

Francesco Cozza was an Italy painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome and apprenticed with Domenichino....
, and Mattia Preti
Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta....
 at the Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone
Valmontone

Valmontone is a comune in the Province of Rome in the Italy region Lazio, located about 45 km southeast of Rome. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 13,453 and an area of 40 km?....
. The fresco
Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
es executed by Gaspard Poussin in S. Martino di Monti are in a bad state of preservation. The Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
 does not possess a single work by his hand. Dughet died at Rome on 27 May 1675.