Lot 62: 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 461/2 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 … Paris au XVIIe siŠcle, 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.' NOTES We are grateful to Mme. Natalie Coural for confirming the attribution on the basis of a transparency (verbal communciation March 2002).