Jan Provoost
Paintings
Virgin and Child
Annunciation
The Martyrdom of St Catherine
Virgin and Child
The Prophet Zachariah
Ecce Homo
Death and the Miser
The Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts Jerome and John the Baptist and a kneeling Carthusian monk
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Virgin and Child
Jan Provoost, or Jean Provost, or Jan Provost (1462/5 – January 1529) was a Belgian painter born in Wallonië (Mons). He was one of the most famous Netherlandish painters of his generation.
Provost was born in Mons. He was 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. Provost 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 Provost. He married the widow of the miniaturist and painter Simon Marmion, after whose death he inherited the considerable Marmion estate. He died in Bruges.
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 Provost. Surprising discoveries can still be made: in 1971 an unknown and anonymous panoramic Crucifixion from the village church at Koolkerke was identified as Provost's. It is on permanent loan to the Groeninge Museum, Bruges, which has several works of Provost: a retrospective exhibition took place in 2008–9.
Selected works
Crucifixion ca 1495 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Crucifixion ca 1500 Groeningemuseum, Bruges
The Virgin in Glory, ca 1524 Hermitage Museum
The Last Judgment Detroit Institute of Arts
Virgin and Child, attributed, National Gallery, London
Last Judgment for the Bruges town hall, 1525 Groeningemuseum, Bruges
The Miser and Death, Groeningemuseum, Bruges
Donor with St Nicholas and his Wife with St Godelina, Groeningemuseum, Bruges
Carrying of the Cross (diptych with the enigmatic picture on the reverse side), ca 1522 Old St. John's Hospital, Bruges
Saint John the Baptist and a Canon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
Triptych of the Parish Church of Calheta, Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal
Saint Mary Magdalene, Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal
Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia Triptych, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
Further reading
Ron Spronk. Jan Provoost: Art Historical and Technical Examinations. Thesis/dissertation. 2 vls. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit, 1993.
Bruges and the Renaissance: from Memling to Pourbus. Catalogue of exhibition held in 1998 in Bruges, ed. Maximiliaan P.J. Martens. 2 vols. Bruges, 1998
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