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Jan Provoost

living 1491; died 1529

Provoost was from Mons. By 1491 he had married the widow of Simon Marmion and in 1494 he settled in Bruges. A 'Last Judgement' in Bruges of 1524-6 is his most securely documented work. In French he is called Prévost.

Paintings by Jan Provoost

The Virgin and Child in a Landscape
The Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Jan Provoost
The magnificently dressed Virgin Mary is seated in a garden, on a turf bench supported on planks of wood. The Christ Child is on her knee, playing with a whirligig. Pulling the string on the toy would make the part with sails fly upwards like a helicopter.Such benches seem to have been common in...
Not on display