Landscape with Antique Ruins and Tobias and the Angel in the Foreground
circa 1690s
gouache on vellum, laid down on card
21.3 x 29 cm (8 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
signed lower left in black ink AP Patel
PROVENANCE
Sale at Hotel du Palais, Biarritz, August 6-7, 2000, lot 177, illustrated
Sale at Hotel Drouot, Paris, September 29, 2000, lot 177
Sotheby`s, New York, January 30, 2013, lot 249
Private Collection, New York(acquired at the above sale)
LITERATURE
N. Courel, Les Patel (Paris, 2001), p. 281, no. PAP154, illustrated
LOT NOTES
In her monograph on the Patel artists(loc. cit), Natalie Courel believes the present work to be characteristic of Patel the Younger`s work of the 1690s.