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A Paris chez Vilquin - Jean Louis Prevost - Framed Print - 20"H x 16"W
A Paris chez Vilquin - Jean Louis Prevost - Framed Print - 20"H x 16"W
Jean-Louis Prévost was a painter of landscapes and flowers and frequently worked in watercolor. Born in Nointel, France, he was a student of Bachelier and a member of a circle of painters associated with the great botanical artist Gerrit van Spaendonck. He was a member of the Academy of Saint-Luc, exhibiting paintings of flowers and fruits there from 1791 to 1810, and he also exhibited at the Academie Royale.
His best known work is the Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits. A series of Cahiers de Fleurs dessineés d'aprés Nature after Prévost and engraved by A. Legrand was issued in the first quarter of the 19th Century.
His distant relative was Jean-Louis Prévost a Swiss neurologist and physiologist who was a native of Geneva.
