Nicolas Prévost (1604–1670) was a French painter at the court of Louis XIII and Richelieu.The order of Minims in seventeenth-century France by P. J. S. Whitmore p.222 In 1640, Richelieu commissioned him to paint the Siege of Privas, based on the engraving by Abraham Bosse, as well as several more of his personal achievements."...but at Richelieu, 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..." in Culture and society in seventeenth-century France David Maland 1970 The painting is now located at the Château de Richelieu. He was a pupil of Simon Vouet.
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