Attribué à Nicolas VLEUGHELS (1688 - 1737)
The liberation of Saint Peter
Oval canvas 26 x 21 cm
(Restorations)
Provenance :
- Chez Pardo, Paris ;
- Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 March 1986, (Mes Ader - Picard - Tajan), n°170, reproduced (attributed to Nicolas Vleughels).
Bibliography :
B. Hercenberg, Nicolas Vleughels, Paris, 1975, n°142, reproduced in figure 156, (attributed to Vleughels).
Note:
This painting is to be compared with the Apparition of the Angel Gabriel to Joseph (Rome
Academy of St. Luke, see B. Hercenberg, opus quoted above, no. 106, reproduced in Figure 120) in which the protagonists adopt similar positions.
