Prise de Privas Louis XIII et le cardinal de Richelieu entrant dans la ville occupee par Saint-Andre-Montbrun le 28 mai 1629

Nicolas Prévost (1604–1670) was a French painter at the court of

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...

and

Richelieu Richelieu (, ; ) may refer to: People * Cardinal Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Plessis, 1585–1642), Louis XIII's chief minister * Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu (1582–1653), French Carthusian bishop and Cardinal * Louis François Armand ...

.''The order of Minims in seventeenth-century France'' by P. J. S. Whitmore p.222
/ref> In 1640, Richelieu commissioned him to paint the

Siege of Privas The siege of Privas was undertaken by Louis XIII of France from 14 May 1629, and the city of Privas was captured on 28 May 1629. It was one of the last events of the Huguenot rebellions (1621-1629). Context The siege of Privas followed the dis ...

, based on the engraving by Abraham Bosse, as well as several more of his personal achievements."...but at

, 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..." i
''Culture and society in seventeenth-century France'' David Maland 1970
/ref> The painting is now located at the

Château de Richelieu The Château de Richelieu was an enormous 17th-century château (manor house) built by the French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642) in Touraine. It was demolished for building materials in 1805 and almost nothing ...

. He was a pupil of Simon Vouet.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prevost, Nicolas 1604 births 1670 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters