Prost, Bernard

Date born: 1849

Place Born: Clairvaux, France

Date died: 1905

Place died: Paris, France

Historian and archivist of the arts of Dijion. Between 1871 and 1880, Prost worked as an archivist in the Jura region. He became the inspector general of all libraries, scientific museums, and archives in 1896, where he converted his notes and research into historical books and articles focusing on obscure artists, including Félix Trutat (1824-48). Prost used tax records to document Trutat's existence, and one of his paintings now hangs in the Louvre. In 1898, Prost published Inventaires et extraits des comptes des ducs de Bourgogne, a collection of the archives of the Burgundian dukes. He died after publishing the first volume, and his nephew completed the second volume after his death. LMW

Home Country: France

Sources: The Dictionary of Art

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