Landscape with River and Castle

Gaspard Dughet's Landscape with River and Castle, painted between 1660 and 1665, is a late work by the French-born Roman landscape painter. By the 1660s, Dughet was the most prolific landscape painter in Italy, and his idealized views of the Roman Campagna were in constant demand from aristocratic collectors. The inclusion of a castle along the river combines his typical pastoral scenery with architectural elements that give the landscape historical gravitas.

Dughet's mature oil-on-canvas technique shows broader, more confident brushwork than his earlier paintings. The composition follows his characteristic formula of framing trees and receding planes of landscape, with the river and castle providing structural focus within the atmospheric panorama.