Frans Post

Brazilian Landscape with a House under Construction

Frans Post
Brazilian Landscape with a House under Construction

c. 1655-1660 展览中 室 8

Johan Maurits took artists and scientists with him to Brazil. One of them was Frans Post, who recorded the landscape. But when Post made this panel, he had already been back in the Netherlands for some time.

Post painted Brazil with a European eye, for European collectors. As a result his landscapes provide an idealised image of the plantation colony and show nothing of the harsh reality of slavery. In Post’s painting, European colonists live harmoniously alongside the indigenous Brazilians (here presumably the Potiguara) and enslaved Africans.

技术细节

Frans Post
Brazilian Landscape with a House under Construction

c. 1655-1660 展览中 室 8

即将到来的活动

详情

基本信息
Frans Post (Haarlem c. 1612 - 1680 Haarlem)
Brazilian Landscape with a House under Construction
c. 1655-1660
painting
1127
室 8
材料和技术细节
oil
panel
46 x 70 cm
铭文
lower right: F. Post

来源

Probably private collection, Amsterdam, until 1891; Eduardo Prado (1860-1901), São Paulo; by inheritance to Paul Plinio Prado, São Paulo, 1962; Raphael Parisi, São Paulo; Brod Gallery, London; H.J. (Hans) de Koster (1914-1992), Wassenaar; Robert Noortman Gallery, Maastricht, 1998; gift of Willem, Baron van Dedem to the Friends of the Mauritshuis Foundation, 2002; on loan to Willem, Baron van Dedem, and his widow, London, 2002-2016