Rocky Landscape with Hunters

Gaspard Dughet's Rocky Landscape with Hunters, painted around 1635, represents the artist's early engagement with the wild, mountainous terrain of the Roman Campagna and the Sabine Hills. As Poussin's brother-in-law, Dughet had access to the highest circles of Roman classical landscape painting. However, his own approach was more spontaneous and atmospheric, preferring dramatic rocky terrain and stormy effects to Poussin's architectonic clarity.

Dughet's oil-on-canvas technique captures the rugged terrain with bold, textured brushwork in the rock formations. The composition creates spatial depth through overlapping planes of landscape, with small hunting figures providing scale and narrative interest within the panoramic view.