Pierre PATEL (1604-1676, French)

Landscape with Classical Ruins

Second half of the 17th century

oil on canvas

signed (lower left)

23 x 32 inches unframed;
27 x 36 inches, inc. frame

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Pierre Patel was born in Picardie in the early years of the 17th century. In 1635, he was a member of the prestigious Parisian Académie de St-Luc and is often remembered for his splendid decoratives schemes, amongst them the “Cabinet de l’Amour” (acquired by Louis XVI and currently displayed in the Louvre), for the hôtel Lambert in Paris in 1646-7, where he worked with Simon Vouet and Eustache le Sueur.

Considered as one of the most outstanding French landscape painter of his generation, he was strongly influenced by Claude Lorrain, but evolved his own rigorously classical idiom and was an important model for landscape artists in the early nineteenth century.