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"Night Attack" by Trofim Bigo from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum

Exhibition June 18 − September 26, 2021
The Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts held the grand opening of the exhibition "Night Attack" by Trofim Bigo from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum.

The exposition introduces the works of Trofim Bigot (1579-1650), a rare French artist of the 17th century, to Kaluga residents and guests of the city. Art historians began to study the work of this master, a follower of the famous Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, in the 1950s. Since then, researchers have continued to make various attempts to unravel the mysteries associated with the artist's personality and legacy for more than half a century.

The works by Trofim Bigo are a rarity in museum collections and private collections. Thanks to recent attribution, we have been able to identify the author of the painting Night Assault, which entered the Hermitage in 1937 as the work of an unknown seventeenth-century artist, with the name of Trofim Bigo. The painting "Night Assault," the only work by Bigo in our country, is presented to the public for the first time. The exhibition "Night Assault" by Trofim Bigo from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum" is organized within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement between Kaluga Region and the State Hermitage Museum concluded in 2015.

Prepared according to the materials of the official website Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts.

Galleries at the exhibition