Pierre Gaston Rigaud

Pierre Gaston Rigaud was a French Post-Impressionist painter and a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in both Bordeaux and Paris.

In 1904, he married Madeleine Filippi, They had two children: Geneviève Rigaud, who went on to marry political cartoonist André Caza, and Jean Rigaud, a Marine painter.

Rigaud is the grandfather of Neo-Impressionist painter Vincent (Cazaumayou) and comic strip artist and science fiction illustrator Caza (Philippe Cazaumayou).

He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists, as well as the Salon of the National, Independents, the Tuileries, the Salon d'Automne, etc. After making many composition paintings, landscapes, and portraits, Rigaud devoted himself almost exclusively to cathedrals and stained glass. He was known as the "Man of Cathedrals".

A number of French museums have acquired his works: Luxembourg, Nantes, Angoulême, Troyes, the Tour du Pin, Mulhouse. He won a gold medal at the Colonial Exhibition in 1931, and another in a 1937 exhibition for a large decorative composition on the Bordeaux region. Many Pierre Gaston Rigaud paintings are in private collections in France, Switzerland and the United States.

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