Nicolas Prévost

Siege of Privas, by Nicolas Prévost, 1640. Château de Richelieu.

Nicolas Prévost (1604-1670) was a French painter at the court of Louis XIII and Richelieu.^[1] In 1640, Richelieu commissionned him to paint the Siege of Privas, based on the engraving by Abraham Bosse, as well as several more of his personal achievements.^[2] The painting is now located at the Château de Richelieu. He was a pupil of Simon Vouet.^[1]

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1. ^ ^{a b} The order of Minims in seventeenth-century France by P. J. S. Whitmore p.222
2. ^ "...but at Richelieu, where perhaps he felt freer in private to indulge a mood of self- glorification, he commissioned Nicolas Prevost to record his personal achievements. Prevost not only painted the great events of his patron's career..." in Culture and society in seventeenth-century France David Maland 1970

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Name	Prevost, Nicolas
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Date of birth	1604
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Date of death	1670
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