A Quiet Master of the Baroque Landscape In the golden age of French Baroque painting, where grand canvases often sought to overwhelm the viewer with dramatic spectacle, Pierre-Antoine Patel emerged as a master of a much more intimate and profound language. Born in Picardy in 1648, Patel did not seek the thunderous compositions of his contemporaries; instead, he dedicated his brush to the subtle, luminous nuances of the natural world.…