BIGOT, Trophîme
(b. ca. 1600, Arles, d. 1650, Avignon)

A Doctor Examining Urine

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Oil on canvas, 72 x 99 cm
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

This painting is unique in French art (but common in the North). The whole treatment is much closer to Netherlandish than to Italian art, with the artist using brick-red tones for the faces and concentrating on strange facial expression.