Pierre-Antoine Patel (November 22, 1648 – March 17, 1707), also known as Patel the Younger, was a French landscape painter. He was the son of

Pierre Patel Pierre Patel (1605 – 5 August 1676) was a French painter. Patel was born in Picardy and was admitted to the Guild of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1633 and the Académie de Saint-Luc The Académie de Saint-Luc was the guild of painters and scul ...

, also a renowned landscape painter, who, like many French painters of his generation, was influenced by the landscapes of Italy painted by

Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in It ...

. The younger Patel distinguished himself from his father by specializing in small, finely finished landscapes in

gouache Gouache (; ), body color, or opaque watercolor is a water-medium paint consisting of natural pigment, water, a binding agent (usually gum arabic or dextrin), and sometimes additional inert material. Gouache is designed to be opaque. Gouache h ...

, an opaque

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

. The majority of his works depict antique ruins, bathed in sunlight. His paintings hang in, among other places, the Hermitage,

Warsaw National Museum The National Museum in Warsaw ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), popularly abbreviated as MNW, is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Egy ...

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, and a number of French museums including three works in the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

Gallery

File:Patel Landscape with architecture.jpg, ''Landscape with architecture and staffage'', 1700–07,

National Museum, Warsaw The National Museum in Warsaw ( pl, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie), popularly abbreviated as MNW, is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art ( Eg ...

File:Patel the Younger, Winter landscape with bridge and castle, 1693.jpg, ''Winter landscape with bridge and castle'', 1693,

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17th-century French painters French male painters 1648 births 1707 deaths Painters from Paris {{France-painter-17thC-stub