Lot 50: GASPARD DUGHET, CALLED GASPARD POUSSIN

ROME 1615 - 1675 A LANDSCAPE WITH A RIVER RUNNING THROUGH A FOREST, A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK RESTING ON THE BANK Black chalk heightened with white chalk on light blue paper, on two joined sheets of paper; bears old pencil attribution on the backing sheet: [W]aterloo and inscription, only partly legible: Woo.....pond & sheep 331 by 470 mm

George Clausen (L.539); with Wheeler and Son, Ltd., London, 1963; Denys Sutton, London, by descent to the present owner

This composition contains elements familiar from Dughet's paintings: tree-lined river banks, waterfall and shepherd with a flock, but the scene is quite enclosed, without the distant vista familiar from his paintings. This could indicate it was a study made on the spot. Similar drawings in black chalk on blue paper are in Düsseldorf1 and the British Museum.2 1. Inv. nos. FP 4709, FP 4721; C. Klemm, Gaspard Dughet und die Ideale Landscaft, exhib. cat., Düsseldorf, Goethe-Museum, 1981, nos. 19, 20 2. Inv. nos. 1946-7-13-1153, 1946-7-13-1120; Gaspard Dughet, exhib. cat., London, Kenwood, 1980, nos. 37, 38