Lot 51: THE CANDLELIGHT MASTER  ACTIVE IN ROME, CIRCA 1620-1640 | A physician with an urine sample by candlelight

Oil on canvas

71 x 90,1 cm; 28 by 35 1/2  in.

Oil on canvas

R. Spear, 'Unknown Pictures by the Caravaggisti (with notes on "Caravaggio and his followers")', in:  Storia dell'Arte, no. 14, April-June 1972, p. 155, reproduced fig. 17;
B. Nicolson, The international Caravaggesque movement: lists of pictures by Caravaggio and his followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1650, Oxford 1979, p. 22 (under Doctor examining a Sample of Urine, no. 2);
B. Nicolson,  Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford 1989, vol. 1, p. 63, under no. 858, no. 2 (all the above as by Trophime Bigot).

With Galleria Vangelli, Rome, 1972; 
Private collection, France.