Rocky Landscape with Hunters (c. 1635): Art, History and Details

Rocky Landscape with Hunters (c. 1635) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gaspard Dughet (French, 1615–1675).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.

Object facts

• Title: Rocky Landscape with Hunters
• Date: c. 1635
• Creator attribution: Gaspard Dughet (French, 1615–1675)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• 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.)
• Collection: P - French 17th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1970.30

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Annual Report for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 6 (June 1971): 162–194.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Talbot, William S. “Some French Landscapes: 1779-1842.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 3 (March 1978): 75–91.

View the collection record

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