PATEL, Pierre-Antoine
(b. 1648, Paris, d. 1707, Paris)

Landscape with Architecture and Staffage

1700-07
Oil on canvas, 104 x 86 cm
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw

In the last decades of the seventeenth century the ideal landscape of Claude Lorrain was continued by painters such as Étienne Allegrain and Pierre-Antoine Patel (Patel the Younger) who added to it a new type of artificiality which was almost eighteenth-century in character.