Attributed To Pierre Antoine Patel Ii, An Italianate Landscape With Roman Ruins Of A Nymphaeum

Attributed to Pierre Antoine Patel II
French painter
Paris 1648 – 1707 Paris
An Italianate landscape with Roman ruins of a Nymphaeum
Oil on canvas : 50,4 X 60,4 cm
Unsigned
Frame : 69,2 X 79,8 cm

Our painting is set between two of the greatest French landscape painters: Claude le Lorrain and Hubert Robert. As in their masterpieces it evokes the lost triumph of a fictitious Classical world.

Pierre Antoine (also known as Pierre II) Patel stepped in the footsteps of his father, who already specialised in this rigorously Classicist style, called Atticism. Father nor son ever travelled to Rome: their attractive architectural views are purely imaginary.

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