After Gaspard Dughet, Italian/French 1615-1675- Arcadian landscape with Rinaldo and Armida; oil on canvas, 85.1 x 139 cm. Provenance: Property from a European Private Collection. Note: The present work is a copy after Dughet's original painting, which is held in the collection of Galleria Corsini in Rome [no.386]. Dughet studied under his brother-in-law, Nicolas Poussin (1694-1665), and was evidently heavily inspired by his teacher's dramatic Classical landscapes, as evident in the present composition, in which the figures of Rinaldo and Armida in the foreground are dwarfed by the grand, mountainous landscape around them.

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