Painter: Provost Jan (1465-1529)

Abraham, Sarah, and the Angel


Crucifixion 1


Crucifixion 2


Death and the Miser

Jan Provoost, or Jan Provost (clic here Wiki) (1462/5, Mons–January 1529, Bruges) was a Flemish painter. He was one of the most famous Netherlandish painters of his generation, a prolific master who left his early workshop in Valenciennes to run two workshops, one in Bruges, where he was made a burgher in 1494, the other simultaneously in Antwerp, which was the economic center of the Low Countries. Provoost was also a cartographer engineer and architect. He met Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1520, and a Dürer portrait drawing at the National Gallery, London, is conjectured to be of Provoost. He married the widow of the miniaturist and painter Simon Marmion, after whose death he inherited the considerable Marmion estate.

The styles of Gerard David and Hans Memling can be detected in Provoost's religious paintings. The Last Judgement painted for the Bruges town hall in 1525 is the only painting for which documentary evidence identifies Provoost. Surprising discoveries can still be made: in 1971 an unknown and anonymous panoramic Crucifixion from the village church at Koolkerke was identified as Provoost's. It is on permanent loan to the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which has several works of Provoost: a retrospective exhibition is scheduled for 2008–9.

Donor with St Nicholas and his Wife with St Godelina



Jan Provoost, o Jan Provost (clic aquí Wiki) (Mons, 1465 – Brujas, 1529) fue un pintor flamenco.

Fue uno de los más famosos pintores de su generación. Conoció a Durero en Amberes, en 1520. Hay una efigie de este último en la National Gallery de Londres que se cree pintada por Provost. Las pinturas religiosas de Provost acusan la influencia tanto de Gérard David como de Hans Memling.