Pierre Patel (Picardy c. 1605-1676 Paris), An Italianate river landscape with figures resting by ruins with their herd

Pierre Patel (Picardy c. 1605-1676 Paris)
An Italianate river landscape with figures resting by ruins with their herd
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 31 ¾ in. (59.6 x 80.8 cm.)

Provenance
(Possibly) Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-1779); his sale, Paris, 2 May 1770 (=1st day), lot 40, as 'Pierre Patel the Elder and F. Boucher' (500 francs to Clerisseau for the Countess of England).
William, 2nd Viscount Harcourt (1908–1979), Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire; Christie's, London, 11 June 1948, lot 151 (55 gns. to Pollak).
with Mario dei Fiori Gallery, Rome, in 1970.
Private collection, Italy, by 1978.

Literature
'Notable works of Art now on the Market', The Burlington Magazine, supplement, December 1970, no. 813, CXII, pl. XXV.
L. Salerno, Pittori di Paesaggio del Seicento a Roma, II, Rome, 1979, pp. 494 and 497, fig. 81.4.
M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, 'Pierre Patel', France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Walpole Gallery, London, 1996. p. 48, illustrated.
N. Coural, Les Patel: Pierre Patel (1605-1676) et ses fils: Le paysage de ruines à Paris au XVIIe siècle, Paris, 2001, pp. 147-8, no. PP 18, illustrated.