Artist: Jan Provost (1465 - 1529)
Nationality: Flemish
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Jan Provost settled in Bruges in 1914 and worked mostly from his studio there. It is thought that he studied under Marmion and married his widow after his death in 1489. His style was similar to Gerard David’s, who the leading painter in Bruges. Also when Durer visited Bruges in 1521, he was a guest at the Provost residence.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (13)
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Virgin and Child, ca. 1495-1500 Jan Provost (Netherlandish, born about 1465, died 1529)Oil on wood;
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Henry Wolf, Provost Smith, 19th - 20th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Crucifixion, ca. 1495 Attributed to Jan Provost (Netherlandish, active by 1491, died 1529)Oil on
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Alexandre CÈlËste Gabriel Provost (PrÈvost), Paris Pittoresque - Le Bal Mabille, 19th - 20th century
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Alexandre CÈlËste Gabriel Provost (PrÈvost), Paris Pittoresque - Boulevard des Italiens, 19th - 20th century
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Alexandre CÈlËste Gabriel Provost (PrÈvost), Les Gamins de Paris - Toi grand Melon?, 19th - 20th century
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Alexandre CÈlËste Gabriel Provost (PrÈvost), Les Gamins de Paris - OrÈ croqin v"la la querre!, 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Antony Chovin, Der Tod zum Blutvogt (Death to the Provost), on page 75 in the book Todten Tans (Dance of Death) (Basel: Birmann und Sˆhne, ca. 1775), ca. 1775
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Jan Provost - The Last Judgement c. 1525 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Flemish
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Gustave DorÈ , A Provost, illustration no. 73 on page 87 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Gustave DorÈ , Another Provost, illustration no. 242 on page 333 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Gustave DorÈ , The Provost"s Laugh, illustration no. 327 on page 482 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Jan Provost - The Madonna Nursing the Infant Christ c. 1520-1525 oil on panel Utah Museum of Fine Arts Flemish

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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University of Virginia Art Museum: A Jefferson Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts
This special exhibition features major examples of 18th- and 19th-century American painting and furniture, including works by Albert Bierstadt, John Singleton Copley, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, Gilbert Stuart ...
UB Art Gallery: Walter Prochownik: In Retrospect, 1965-1995

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Norman E. Boasberg Fund, 1973 >A dedicated faculty member of the Department of Art and Art History at the University at Buffalo for thirty-two years, Prochownik was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1995 and ...
Visual Arts League at Johnson Med. School-Univ. of Med. and Dent.: 3 Americas! Brings Together Works from the Western Hemisphere
We will get a fresh concept of America by looking at these faces and figures from all over the great strip of ...
Robert Mann Gallery: Joe Deal: The Fault Zone and Other Work 1976-1986
They created a map of American culture by making documentary photographs that were, as curator William Jenkins explains, "anthropological rather than critical, scientific rather than artistic." The relevance of the New Topographics artists has onl...
American Museum of Natural History: Library of American Museum of Natural History Awarded $2 Million Grant
The Museums digitization project is another exciting example of cutting edge technology providing immediate access to the Museumís unique assets to an expanding global audience said Museum President Ellen V. Futter. The collections of the Museum L...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today
Jointly planned with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in conjunction with its major international conference," Re-Imagining Ireland" (May 7-10; re-imagining-ireland.org), the exhibition wil...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Enchanted Places: Four Leading Contemporary Scottish Painters
REINHARD BEHRENS RSW SSA "My drawings, etchings, paintings and installations contribute to an ever increasing Œbody of evidence‚ for the existence of the parallel world of ŒNaboland‚ in which normal limits of time and space are dissolved
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500 – 1650
More than 80 images of Old Master paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and decorative arts objects depicting powerful women are brought together for the first time to reveal much about the context in which they were created. Looking at these r...
Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago: Mark Manders: Isolated Rooms
Born in 1968, Manders belongs to a generation of post-minimal sculptors whose work is unabashedly grounded in narrative. In this respect, his significant precursors include Robert Gober, Juan Munoz, Kiki Smith, and Miroslaw Balka, to name a few. ...

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