A landscape with a seated figure by a waterfall in the foreground and a castle on a hill in the distance

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Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615-1675)
A landscape with a seated figure by a waterfall in the foreground and a castle on a hill in the distance
black and white chalk on blue paper
11 5/8 x 16 1/8 in. (29.5 x 40.9 cm.)

Provenance

Weigel (according to Goldschmidt sale catalogue).
Habich (according to Goldschmidt sale catalogue).
R.P. Goldschmidt (L. 2926); Prestel, Frankfurt, 4-5 October 1917, lot 453.
Bernhard Himmelheber, and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Close in composition to a drawing also in black and white chalk on blue paper in Düsseldorf (C. Klemm, Gaspard Dughet und die Ideale Landschaft. Die Zeichnungen im Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1981, no. 18, illustrated on cover) which is a study for a painting now in the Columbus Museum of Fine Art (M.-N. Boisclair, Gaspard Dughet. Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1986, no. 259, fig. 299).

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