The Alpine Sublime: The Dual Legacy of Jean-Louis Prevost In the annals of nineteenth-century art, few figures possess a biography as intellectually layered as Jean-Louis Prevost. Born in Geneva in 1838, Prevost lived a life defined by a profound duality, navigating the rigorous, empirical world of medical science and the emotive, ethereal realm of Romantic landscape painting. While history often remembers him as a distinguished Swiss…