Hyacinthe's father, Josep Matias Pere Ramon Rigau, was a tailor (sastre in Catalan) in the parish of Saint-Jean de Perpignan, "as well as a painter", descended from a line of well-established artists in the Perpignanian basin who had been commissioned to decorate several tabernacles and other panels for liturgical use. Few of these have survived to the present (Palau-del-Vidre, Perpignan, Montalba-d'Amélie, Joch...). Hyacinthe's grandfather, Jacinto major,died in 1631. On 25 July 1617, in the église de La Réal in Perpignan, he married Madalena Roat. She was the widow of Pera Roat and on 1 November 1634 remarried in the église Saint-Mathieu in Perpignan, to Antoni Balasco. and even more Jacinto's father, Honorat minor,His year of birth unknown, on 5 July 1617 in the église de La Réal in Perpignan he married Antiga Franch, widow of Antoni Franch were heads of the family and the local art world from 1570 to 1630; probably as much as gilders as painters,Julien Lugan, Peintres et doreurs en Roussillon aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Canet, éditions Trabucaire, 2006. since in their studios were to be found "many prints and books treating on the art of painting, and other things, such as brushes and palettes for painting".
