Pierre Antoine Patel the Younger (Paris 1648-1707)Italianate wooded landscape with ruins and a stag hunt beyondsigned and dated 'AP.PATEL/ 1697' (on plinth, lower left, AP in ligature)oil on canvas90.1x 116.7cm(35 1/2x 45 15/16in).For further information on this lot please visit theArtist or Maker: Pierre Antoine Patel the Younger (Paris 1648-1707)Provenance: ProvenanceSale, Sotheby's, London, 14-15 May 1986, lot 49Private Collection, UKLiteratureN. 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 35Coural suggests that this painting could belong to a series ofSeasons and representAutumn. Another similar work of the same dimensions and also dated 1698, depicts a harvest scene and probably representsSummer (see: Coural,ibid, cat. no. PAP 36).