François-Marius Granet's painting is both a historical and a folklore subject. It shows a young girl asking Cardinal Aldobrandini, the man in red, for help. The scene is set about 1600, but the view shows the garden the way it looked when Granet stayed there in 1822. The choice of motif was a way for the artist to please his host and patron, a descendant of the Cardinal, Prince Aldobrandini Borghese. 3/1-2022 François-Marius Granet belongs to a group of prominent French artists who worked for many years in Rome and its surroundings in the early 1800s. Although he devoted himself mainly to plein-air painting, a narrative element frequently appears in his works with characters, often priests and monks. Occasionally, this resulted in veritable history paintings, with landscape views, as in Audience with Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini in the Loggia of the Villa Belvedere in Frascati, painted around 1822–23. The scene is set in 1600s, but the view is of the garden as it looked when Granet visited a later relative of the cardinal, Prince Aldobrandini-Borghese, nephew of Napoleon’s sister, Pauline Borghese.