Pierre Patel (1604 - 1676). Pierre Patel was a French painter. Patel was born in Picardy and was admitted to the Guild of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1633 and the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1635. He primarily painted landscapes. In 1648 he had a son Pierre-Antoine Patel, who also became a painter. Patel died in Paris in 1676.