# Winter landscape with bridge and castle

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e/winter-landscape-with-bridge-and-castle-r025d1589230294>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [PATEL, Pierre-Antoine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Gouache on parchment 159 x 270 mm

## Commentary

Patel the Younger distinguished himself by specializing in small, exquisitely finished landscapes painted in gouache — or opaque watercolour — on parchment. Most of his idealized landscapes feature ancient ruins bathed in sunlight, but there are a few exceptions, including this lakefront setting gripped by snow and ice. Patel&#39;s winter wonderland displays a medley of architectural styles, colossal trees, and genre-like details that derive from the Dutch and Flemish landscape tradition.

## Related artworks

- [A Classical Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e/a-classical-landscape-r54f3996c775071>)
- [Landscape with a Bridge and Hunters \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e/landscape-with-a-bridge-and-hunters-detail-r1a49aefee24e89>)
- [Landscape with a Bridge and Hunters](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e/landscape-with-a-bridge-and-hunters-r0e42b15325eb6b>)
- [Landscape with Architecture and Staffage](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/patel-pierre-antoine-rec202486c94f5e/landscape-with-architecture-and-staffage-r52cffd34d484f3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)