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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.82
People
Gaspard Dughet, French (Rome 1615 - 1675 Rome)
Title
Road Through a Wooded Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1649
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296717

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pen with brown ink, brown wash, and traces of red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount in cream antique laid paper with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
30.5 x 28 cm (12 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: G [illegible] Dughet
  • inscription: mount, lower center, brown ink: Gasp [illegible] Dughet. dit guaspre pouSsin
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Tres beuu dessin ayant appurtenu à Mariette le celebre collectionneur / dont il porte la marque du collection

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1852, lower center); his sale, Drouot (Basan), Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, possibly part of lot 1332; Augustin Menageot, Paris; sale, Drouot, Paris, 13 December 1963, lot 10; W. R. Jeudwine, London; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Anonymous Donor), 1964.82

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Anonymous Donor)
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.82
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Crombie, "Naldini to Nasmyth", Apollo, The Spectator (London, 1964), vol. 79, no. 27, pp. 421-22, pp. 421-22
  • Benedict Nicolson, "Notes on Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1964), vol. 106, no. 746, July, pp. 239-41, 342, 349-51, p. 240
  • Yvonne Ffrench and W. R. Jeudwine, Exhibitions of Landscapes of the Grand Tour: Drawings and Watercolors, XVIIth to XIXth Centuries, exh. cat., Alpine Club Gallery (London, 1964), cat. no. 10, n.p.
  • Ann Sutherland Harris, "A Lost Drawing by Gaspard Dughet for a Fresco by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1968), vol. 110, no. 780, pp. 142, 144-45, p. 142
  • Marco Chiarini, "Gaspard Dughet: Some Drawings Connected with Paintings", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1969), vol. 111, no. 801, pp. 750-54, p. 753
  • Pierre Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections / Dessins français du 17ème & du 18ème siècles des collections américaines, exh. cat., Secker & Warburg (London, 1972-1973), pp. 156-57
  • Denys Sutton, Romance and Reality: Aspects of Landscape Painting, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, 1978), cat. no. 27, n.p.
  • Johanna Heideman, "The Dating of Gaspard Dughet’s Frescoes in San Martino ai Monti in Rome", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (1980), vol. 122, no. 929, pp. 540-46, p. 544
  • Margret Stuffmann and Hildegard Bauereisen, Französische Zeichnungen im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1550 bis 1800, exh. cat., Die Städtische Galerie (Frankfurt, 1986), p. 47
  • Marie-Nicole Boisclair, Gaspard Dughet: sa vie et son oeuvre (1615-1675), Arthena (Paris, 1986), pp. 197, 376
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 39 pp. 85-86
  • Marco Chiarini, Gaspard Dughet, 1615-75, Galerie de Bayser (Paris, 1990), cat. no. 16, n.p.
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, pp. 33-34
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles and David Guillet, ed., Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and The Frick Collection (Paris and New York, 2001-2002), p. 204
  • Ann Sutherland Harris, "Gaspard Dughet's Drawings: Function and Fame", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2009), vol. 47, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 278, 279, 323-n.83
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Les dessins de la collection Mariette: école française, Electa (Milan, 2011), vol. 1, cat. no. F 1719, p. 555
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 130, 639
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 29, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibitions of Landscapes of the Grand Tour: Drawings and Watercolors, XVIIth to XIXth Centuries, Alpine Club Gallery, 04/28/1964 - 05/09/1964
  • Romance and Reality: Aspects of Landscape Painting, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 10/18/1978 - 11/22/1978
  • From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990

Verification Level

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