Pierre Patel: a romantic landscape of Paris

(1648 Paris – 1707 same place.) Southern landscape with ruins and a romantic evening mood. In the foreground, ancient ruins with a strolling noble couple in love, next to them a pair of swans as a symbol of love. In the background, another resting couple in love and a coastline with an ancient city. Pierre Antoine Patel was the son of the artist Pierre Patel (1605–1676), who was probably his teacher and was already actively working in Paris in the 1630s. Like his father, he specialized in imaginary, idealized landscapes of Italy with Greco-Roman ruins, although his understanding of nature was more picturesque and free, bathed in warm sunlight. His paintings hang, among other places, in the Hermitage, the National Museum in Warsaw, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Louvre. Oil, canvas, relined; signed on the column; 44 cm x 32 cm. In a frame.