Pierre Patel the Elder
An Italianate river landscape with figures resting by ruins with their herd
59.6 x 80.8 cmOil on canvas
Sale Christie's, London, 8 December 2017
Provenance
(Possibly) Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725-1779)
his sale, Paris, 2 May 1770 (=1st day), nr. 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
sale Christie's, London, 11 June 1948, nr. 151 (55 gns. to Pollak)
with Mario dei Fiori Gallery, Rome, in 1970
private collection, Italy, by 1978
sale Christie's, London, 8 December 2017, nr. 149