CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE WITH BATHERS

Artist GASPARD (POUSSIN) DUGHET (1615–1675)

Datec.1650

CountryFrance

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions117.8 x 172.7 cm (46 3/8 x 68") (Image)
Frame: 142.2 x 197.5 cm (56 x 77 3/4")

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, gift of Lee A. Carson.

Terms

Object number830008700

DescriptionThe image is a landscape is which trees and foliage appear in the left and right rear foreground creating a central opening that allows the viewer to see into the distance. In the lower left corner a group of nude male figures, three seated and one standing, bath in a body of water. In the center middle ground two additional figures can be seen, beyond the figures a town or city scape is visible. In the distance a mountain peak reaches into a cloudy sky.

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