Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mme. Natalie Coural for confirming the attribution on the basis of a transparency (verbal communciation March 2002).
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An Italianate landscape with classical ruins and figures conversing by a bridge
Details
PIERRE-ANTOINE PATEL II (Paris 1648-1707)
An Italianate landscape with classical ruins and figures conversing by a bridge
signed and dated 'PA PATEL 1695' ('PA' linked, lower left)
oil on canvas
35 x 46½ in. (88.9 x 118.1 cm.)
An Italianate landscape with classical ruins and figures conversing by a bridge
signed and dated 'PA PATEL 1695' ('PA' linked, lower left)
oil on canvas
35 x 46½ in. (88.9 x 118.1 cm.)
Provenance
with Detering Galleries, Houston, from whom purchased by the present owner in the 1960s.
Literature
N. Coural, Les Patel: Pierre Patel (1605-1676) et ses fils - le paysage de ruines à Paris au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2001, p. 255, no. PAP 24, illustrated, 'La date che porte le tableau fait de celui-ci un jalon important dans l'oeuvre peint de l'artiste.'