# Heroic Landscape with Figures [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DUGHET, Gaspard]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 112 x 153 cm ## Commentary Most of Dughet's landscapes have their origin in the spirit of antiquity and represent the idyllic images of day-dreams that transcend reality. The people in these paintings are reduced to the role of staffage. The composition of this large-scale painting is carefully designed and resembles the depiction of a dream, without even a trace of resemblance to the Roman countryside. This fantasy world has its origin in the work of Virgil, who recreated the lost paradise in his poetic dreamland of Arcadia, where people live in peace and harmony with nature. ## Related artworks - [A View of Tivoli, with the Teverone Flowing Beneath]() - [Country Landscape]() - [Design for a Country Landscape with Wayfarers]() - [Hall in the Appartamento Estivo]() - [Imaginary Landscape]() - [Italianate Landscape]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with Lightning]() - [Landscape with Magdalen Worshipping the Cross]() - [Landscape with St Augustine and the Mystery]() - [Landscape with St Jerome and the Lion]() - [Rocky Roman Landscape with a Hilltop Town]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()