View of a Hilltown / Pierre Antoine Patel

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Accession Number: 2012/2.197
Title: View of a Hilltown
Artist: Pierre Antoine Patel
Artist Nationality: French
Artist Life Dates: 1648-1707
Medium and Support: pen and brown and black ink grey wash over red chalk on thin laid paper laid down on medium laid paper
Credit Line: Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
Dimensions: 26.04 cm x 30.64 cm (10 1/4 in. x 12 1/16 in.)
Physical Description: This pen and ink and wash drawing depicts a view of a town amidst a hilly landscape. A dog stands atop a hill and looks toward a body of water in the midground. A cluster of buildings are scattered throughout the composition. The central building has a large arched portico. Clouds of smoke appear to be billowing out of buildings.
Subject Matter: View of a hilltown with buildings and clouds.
Primary Keywords: architecture (object genre); landscape; trees
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; descriptors; landscapes (environments); natural landscapes; object genres; plants; settlements and landscapes; vegetation and vegetation components; vegetation components; woody plants
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2859 x 2402
File Size: 917 KB
Record: 2012/2.197
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.197/2012_2_197.jpg

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Full citation: "View of a Hilltown; Pierre Antoine Patel." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.197/2012_2_197.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.