Trophime Bigot

Trophime Bigot (* 1597 in Arles, † 1650 in Avignon ) was a French painter of the Baroque. He served in Italy and France. Many of his works depict typical figures and scenes by candlelight.

Life

From about 1620 to 1634 Trophime Bigot worked in Rome. Later he lived from 1638 to 1642 in Aix -en- Provence, where altar paintings were created, the time before and after which he spent in Arles. From 1644 he finally lived in Avignon. He was buried on 21 February in 1650.

Master of candlelight

By Benedict Nicolson in 1960 about 40 paintings were grouped as the work of an anonymous artist, which he gave the Notnamen "Master of candlelight " (English Candlelight Master). In an article of 1964, he finally identified this masterpiece with Bigot. Previously it was also suggested that these works of Gerrit van Honthorst, Matthias Stom or Georges de La Tour could come. However, Nicolson attribution to Bigot was widely recognized.

Jean -Pierre Cuzin suggested that only a portion should come to the work of the masters of candlelight grouped paintings by Bigot.

Other names clarification

Because of the stylistic differences between the works of the Roman and the French creative period Bigots came on the assumption that there might be two painters have given the name of Bigot. The hypothesis that the case raised father and son could be refuted by documentary material from the Municipal Archives of Arles. An engraving after a lost painting Bigots, Madonna and Child in the workshop of Joseph (private property), from Aix -en- Provence offers a possible link between the Roman and Provencal work.

Joachim von Sandrart knows at the beginning of the 17th century a Trufemondi mentioned caravaggistischen painter of nocturnal chest images; by Jean Boyer is so Bigot meant.

Works

• Chanteur à la chandelle ( Palazzo Doria Pamphili - )
• Allégorie de la Vanité ( Palazzo Barberini)
• Doctor examining a urine sample ( Ashmolean Museum )
• The Holy Family With Two Angels (Hôtel -Dieu de Québec)
• The Last Supper or Lord's Supper at Emmaus (1639-1641, mural in the Convent of the Carmelites, Aix -en- Provence)