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Candlelight Master [Maître à la Chandelle]
( fl c. 1620–40). French or Dutch painter, active in Rome. The identity and even the existence of this early Baroque painter have prompted much debate. In 1960 Benedict Nicolson attributed a stylistically coherent group of 39 unsigned and undated Caravaggesque night scenes to an anonymous painter he called the ‘Candlelight Master’; these works had been variously attributed to Gerrit van Honthorst, Matthias Stom, Georges de La Tour and other followers of Caravaggio. Nicolson proposed that the Candlelight Master had been born c. 1600 in or around Aix-en-Provence and had been an apprentice in Utrecht before settling in Rome. In 1964 Nicolson and Jean Boyer independently identified the Candlelight Master as TROPHIME BIGOT, a native of Aix, who lived in Rome in the 1620s and early 1630s, and further identified Bigot with the mysterious painter of nocturnes whom Joachim von Sandrart called ‘Trufemondi’.
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