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### Author
Prévost, Jean Louis (*fl*. 1760-1810), French flower and landscape painter.
**Abbreviated name**: *Prévost* \[standard form in IPNI: *Prévost*\]
#### Original drawings
See Lenley p. 335 and NI 1568.
#### Bibliography and biography
DU 229; GF p. 13, 71; Lenley p. 335; NI 1568 and 3: 55; PR 7332 (ed. 1: 8223); Rehder 1: 265, 3: 481.
#### Biofile
- Stearn, W.T., Roy. Hort. Soc., Exhib. manuscr. books 1954, p. 35-36.
#### Eponymy
*Prevostea* J. Choisy (1825) [^1] honors J.L. Prevost, as well as Isaac Benedict Prevost (1755-1819), Swiss professor of plant physiology, and Pierre Prevost, a professor of physics at l'Académie de Genève.
### Publications
##### n.8319. Collection de fleurs et de fruits
**Title**
*Collection de fleurs et de fruits*, peints d'après nature, et tirées du portefeuille de J.D. Prévost, avec une description, par F.M.D. Ouvrage composé de 48 planches; destiné à l'usage des artistes, des fabricans, des amateurs, et pouvant servir aux personnes qui se livrent à la peinture. Imprimés en couleur par Langlois. Paris An XIII \[1804-1806\]. Fol.
(*Coll. fl. fruits*) n.v.
**Notes**
*Publ*.: in 12 fascicles of 4 plates each. The announcement of livr. 1 and 2 in JT (16 pluv.
12, 6 Feb 1804) promises two livraisons each three months. Each plate is accompanied by a text, first written by "F.M.D." later by "M.\*\*\*" and finally by A.N.
Duchesne, who may have been the author of the entire text. Two issues: plain and coloured plates. The announcements in the JT were made on the following dates:
|livr. |*plates* |JT |
|--- |--- |--- |
|1 |1-4 |6 Feb 1804
|2 |5-8 |6 Feb 1804
|3 |9-12 |13 Jun 1804
|4 |13-16 |7 Oct 1804
|5 |17-20 |22 Nov 1804
|6 |21-24 |6 Mar 1805
|7 |25-28 |4 Jul 1805|
|8 |29-32 |-|
|9 |33-36 |-|
|10 |37-40 |16 Apr 1806|
|11 |41-44 |8 Mai 1806|
|12 |45-48 |-|
For details on the plates (stipple engravings, printed in colour or in black and white) see DU 229.
*Reprint*: Jean Louis Prévost. *Bouquets*. Eighteen coloured engravings which faithfully reproduce the original watercolour flowers and fruits with captions from the original text and an introduction by Emy Pischel. MacDonald London\[1969\], p. \[i-vii\], *18 pl.w.t.* Originally published in German, 1959, Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart (n.v.). – Plates reproduced from a copy in the Coburg library.
[^1]: "*Prevostea* Choisy 1825 (Convolvulaceae) \[is dedicated to\] Isaac-Bénédict Prévost (1755–1819), Swiss teacher, professor of plant physiology and natural history in Montauban **and** Pierre Prévost (1751–1839), Swiss professor of physics at l’Académie de Genève, delegate **and** Jean-Louis Prévost (1790 1850), Swiss physician, biologist, Choisy’s friend (Choisy, 1825: 497).
*Note*. – This “Jean-Louis Prévost” is **not identical** to the person of the same name in TL-2."
Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)