Heinigke collection, New York

[Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York, until 1946]

Acquired by the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1946 [1]


[1] As Georges de La Tour

1951, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "Old Master Paintings from California Museums," August, no. 3, repr.

1951-1952, Ann Arbor-Grand Rapids. "Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries." Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1 - 28 November 1951; The Grand Rapids Art Gallery, 14 December 1951 - 9 January 1952, no. 37.

1952, Long Beach. Municipal Art Center, April, no catalogue.

1954, Fort Worth Art Center. "Inaugural Exhibition," 8 - 31 October.

1982, Paris-New York-Chicago. "La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines." Paris, Grand Palais, 29 January - 26 April. "France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth Century French Painting in American Collections." New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 May - 22 August; The Art Institute of Chicago, 18 September - 28 November.

2013, San Francisco. The de Young Museum. "Rembrandt’s Century,” 26 January - 2 June.

Art News (September 1946): p. 8, repr. (as La Tour).

Art Digest (15 September 1946): p. 7, repr. (as La Tour).

Illustrated Handbook (1946): 49, repr. (as La Tour).

Thomas C. Howe. "Georges de La Tour.” Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 4, no. 5 (September 1946): pp. 34-43, repr. (as La Tour).

Charles Sterling. "Observations sur Georges de La Tour, à propos d'un livre récent." La Revue des Arts (1951): p. 155, note 10 (as La Tour).

François-Georges Pariset. "Georges de La Tour." Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959.

Benedict Nicolson. "The 'Candlelight Master,' A Follower of Honthorst in Rome." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 11 (1960): pp. 130, note 27, 143-144, 159-160, fig. 20 (as The Candlelight Master).

Benedict Nicolson. "Un caravagesque aixois, le Maître à la chandelle." Art de France 4 (1964): pp. 121, 132, no. 40, pl. 19 (as T. Bigot).

Jacques Thuillier. L'opera completa di Georges de La Tour. Milan: Rizzoli; Tout l'œuvre peint de Georges de La Tour. Paris: Flammarion, 1973, pp. 101, no. D18, repr. (as Bigot).

Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean Pierre Cuzin. Valentin et les caravagesques français. Grand Palais, 13 février - 15 avril 1974. Paris: Editions des musées nationaux, 1974, pp. 18 & 248 (as Bigot).

Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée and Jean Pierre Cuzin. I Caravaggeschi Francesi: Accademia Di Francia, Villa Medici, Roma, 15 Novembre 1973-20 Gennaio 1974. Roma: De Luca, 1973, pp. 18 & 240 (as Bigot).

Henri Wytenhove. La peinture en Provence au XVIIe siècle: [exposition] Musée des beaux-arts, Palais Longchamp, juillet-octobre 78. Marseille: Laffitte, 1978, p. 164.

Benedict Nicolson. The International Caravaggesque Movement: Lists of Pictures by Caravaggio and His Followers throughout Europe from 1590 to 1640. London: Phaidon Press, 1979, p. 22 (as T. Bigot).

“La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines." Le Petit Journal des Grandes Expositions, no. 116 (1982): fig. 65.

Christopher Wright. “The ‘Choirboy’ by Georges de La Tour.” Burlington Magazine 126, no. 975 (June 1984): p. 351.

T. Lefrançois. “Les peintures provençales anciennes des Fine Arts Museums de San Francisco.” Bulletin Mensuel de l'Académie de Vaucluse (January 1985): p. 4 (as The Candlelight Master).

Christopher Wright. The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985, pp. 141 & 285 (as "Bigot ?").

Benedict Nicolson. Caravaggism in Europe Vol. 2 : Plates 1-927 (Caravaggio and Italian Caravaggism 1-593, French Caravaggism 594-927). London: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1989, pl. 866.

Christopher Wright. The Masters of Candlelight: An Anthology of Great Masters including Georges de La Tour, Godfried Schalcken, Joseph Wright of Derby. Landshut/Ergolding: Arcos Verlag, 1995, pp. 92-93.

Mary Jane Harris. Continuity, Innovation, and Connoisseurship: Old Master Paintings at the Palmer Museum of Art : Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the Palmer Museum of Art on March 31 Through April 2, 1995. University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania State University, 2003, fig. 27.