Lubin Baugin (1612-1663)

• Was a French painter.
• He was born in Pithiviers to a prosperous family.
• Baugin entered the guild of St.-Germaine-des-Prés as a master painter on May 23, 1629.
• His earliest surviving paintings are still lifes.
• Around 1632–33 he traveled to Italy, where he settled in Rome.
• After 1641 he worked in Paris, where he died in 1663.
• Most of his surviving subject pictures are religious works.

• No painted portraits by his hand are known to have survived, although several are known through engravings.

• None of his works are dated.

• The four still lifes securely attributed to Baugin were completed before the artist was twenty years of age.

• Trevor Winkfield calls Baugin "one of the most innovative of all French still life painters".

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