Dughet, Gaspard Poussin portrait's biography

1615 Rome -  1675 Rome
Gaspard Dughet, also known as Gaspard Poussin, was the son of a French cook and his Italian wife. He was born in Rome and was the only 17th-century French Baroque painter who never spent any time in France. Nor did he frequently leave the Eternal City: there are records of brief visits to Milan, Perugia, Florence and Naples.
Nevertheless, French art was not foreign to him, since there was a colony of French artists in Rome. Nicolas Poussin (1594- 1665), his brother-in-law, who left France for Rome in 1624, was quick to recognise Dughet's talent. He took him on as an apprentice when Dughet was only fifteen and introduced him to landscape painting. The apprentice was so impressed by his master that he adopted his surname -  Poussin.
The young painter began to work on his own account as early as in 1635. He made easel paintings and decorated numerous palaces and villas in Rome and its environs. In 1657, he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca. In 1675, Dughet died in Rome after a long illness.