Pierre Antoine Patel the Younger (Paris 1648-1707)
Italianate wooded landscape with ruins and a stag hunt beyond
signed and dated 'AP.PATEL/ 1697' (on plinth, lower left, AP in ligature)
oil on canvas
90.1 x 116.7cm (35 1/2 x 45 15/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 14-15 May 1986, lot 49
Private Collection, UK

Literature
N. Coural, Les Patel: Pierre Patel (1605-1676) et ses fils - le paysage de ruines à Paris au XVIIe siècle, Paris 2001, p. 219, cat. no. PAP 35

Coural suggests that this painting could belong to a series of Seasons and represent Autumn. Another similar work of the same dimensions and also dated 1698, depicts a harvest scene and probably represents Summer (see: Coural,ibid, cat. no. PAP 36).