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Description: | The composition of this work resembles Patel's Paysage de Ruines avec un Berger (Banque Paribas, Paris) and Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1652, National Gallery, London). Patel was influenced by the classical style of Claude and his scenes of the Roma Campagna. However, there is no evidence that Patel ever visited Rome and it is possible that he worked in Paris all his life. His paintings usually include classical ruins in idyllic landscapes, which often are more prominent than the landscapes themselves, and this is demonstrated particularly well in this work, where the ruin becomes the key figure of the composition. The composition is conceived in a typical Patel style, however the large scale of the painting is unusual for the artist who often worked in small format. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Patel, Pierre, I (French painter, ca.1605-1676) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to manner of Dughet, Gaspard (French landscape painter, 1615-1675, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8816... | Go to resource |
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