Nicolas VLEUGHELS (Paris 1668 - Rome 1737) Almsgiving Oak panel, one board, not parqueted Height : 30,5 cm Width : 22,5 cm Dated upper left: MDCCXXXV (1735) Monogrammed top right: NV / F.R. (probably for "Fecit Roma") The scene is set in Rome, where Vleughels was head of the Académie de France, then located in the Palazzo Mancini on the Corso di Roma. Corso. The central female figure is similar to the Fille de Frascati (Bernard Hercenberg, Nicolas Vleughels, Léonce Laget, Paris, 1976, repr. fig. 137). Appraisal: Cabinet Turquin

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