tried to claim the property after Bigot had not been heard of for some while, and was thought dead, at least by his cousin. Another document, from 1651, shows that Bigot had no family heirs after his death. However acceptance of many of the attributions of Roman works to Bigot is notably lower in Italy; the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome still attribute the boy with candle above to "Maestro Giacomo", and the National Gallery at Palazzo Barberini hang works attributed to Bigot and the Candlelight Master in the same room, with the assertion that the styles and lighting are different. After he returned to France, Bigot produced altarpieces, at Arles and at Aix-en-Provence, that are in a very different and more conventional style from the Roman candle-lit works. In the Roman works the light-source is usually either a single candle, which for an extra softness of light is sometimes shown held in a bag-like paper, as in the works in Vienna and Bordeaux. As with de la Tour, the same subjects are often repeated in differing compositions, with many St Jeromes and at least four versions of St. Sebastian Aided by St. Irene: in Bordeaux, the Vatican Pinacoteca, Bob Jones University in South Carolina, and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. About 40 paintings, distributed amongst various museums, have been attributed to Bigot, among them: Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, with other versions in the Vatican Pinacoteca and two in the USA (Greenville with the Vatican composition). Vanity (Rome, Corsini Palace, Rome) Saint Jerome (Corsini Palace, Rome and other versions) Saint Laurence Condemned to Torture, altarpiece restored by the organization Monuments Historiques (Arles, Church of Saint-Césaire) Notes References Boyer, Jean, "The One and Only Trophime Bigot", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 130, No. 1022 (May, 1988), pp. 355–357, JSTOR Further reading Cuzin Jean-Pierre, “Trophime Bigot in Rome: a suggestion”, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 121, No. 914 (May, 1979), pp. 301-305 External links Quelques œuvres du peintre sur la base Joconde Site personnel French Baroque painters 1579 births 1650 deaths 16th-century French painters French male painters 17th-century French painters People from Arles Caravaggisti Catholic painters