GASPARD DUGHET (1615-75)
Seascape with Jonah and the Whale
c. 1653-4RCIN 405355
This landscape, believed to be a collaboration between Nicolas Poussin and his brother-in-law, Gaspard Dughet, shows the moment when Jonah is thrown overboard and swallowed by a whale. The Georgians collected such landscapes of terror as eagerly as those of delight; the ‘Sublime’ was their word for things to be enjoyed in art but avoided in life.
Acquired by Frederick, Prince of Wales, who also commissioned the frame
Cat. 133