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396 SCHOLARS & IMITATORS OF CLAUDE LORRAINE.
author made them his study, and attempted their imitation.
This opinion is further strengthened by the statement of
biographers, that he occasionally introduced the figures into
Lorraine’s pictures, and in the performance of this, his eye
would naturally have become, in a measure, familiarised with
the sweetness and harmony, as well as the manner, of the
execution of that great painter’s productions.
There were three artists bearing the name of Courtois; of
these, in the absence of better proof, the writer is induced to
attribute the merit of these imitations to the above named,
who is better known under the appellation of Bourguignon,
or, as he was styled in Italy, Giacomo Cortese Borgognone,
so celebrated for battle pieces.
One of the very best of the imitations of Claude, repre-
senting a sea-port, inscribed with his name, is in a small
collection at Bremen.
He was born in Tranche Comte, in 1621, and died at
Rome, in 1676.
Pierre Patel. The works of this clever French painter,
have sufficient merit to entitle their author to a place among
the imitators of Claude, whose pictures he evidently made his
models, and, like the prototype, his style of composition evinces
a cultivated taste and judgment, as well in the grouping and
forms of his trees, as in the choice and general arrangement of
the scenery; the architectural embellishments also, are strictly
in accordance with the surrounding landscape, and are executed
with great skill, combined with much classical feeling; thus
far this painter merits commendation, but when the eye is
directed to the colouring and gradations, even of his best
productions, there is a sad deficiency in both, and these,
together with many other defects, place him at an immeasu-
rable distance from Claude Lorraine.
Pierre Patel was born in 1654.
author made them his study, and attempted their imitation.
This opinion is further strengthened by the statement of
biographers, that he occasionally introduced the figures into
Lorraine’s pictures, and in the performance of this, his eye
would naturally have become, in a measure, familiarised with
the sweetness and harmony, as well as the manner, of the
execution of that great painter’s productions.
There were three artists bearing the name of Courtois; of
these, in the absence of better proof, the writer is induced to
attribute the merit of these imitations to the above named,
who is better known under the appellation of Bourguignon,
or, as he was styled in Italy, Giacomo Cortese Borgognone,
so celebrated for battle pieces.
One of the very best of the imitations of Claude, repre-
senting a sea-port, inscribed with his name, is in a small
collection at Bremen.
He was born in Tranche Comte, in 1621, and died at
Rome, in 1676.
Pierre Patel. The works of this clever French painter,
have sufficient merit to entitle their author to a place among
the imitators of Claude, whose pictures he evidently made his
models, and, like the prototype, his style of composition evinces
a cultivated taste and judgment, as well in the grouping and
forms of his trees, as in the choice and general arrangement of
the scenery; the architectural embellishments also, are strictly
in accordance with the surrounding landscape, and are executed
with great skill, combined with much classical feeling; thus
far this painter merits commendation, but when the eye is
directed to the colouring and gradations, even of his best
productions, there is a sad deficiency in both, and these,
together with many other defects, place him at an immeasu-
rable distance from Claude Lorraine.
Pierre Patel was born in 1654.