Scarica immagine
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Scarica immagine
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Scarica immagine
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Scarica immagine
The entire collection of the Mauritshuis is available to download in high resolution.
For publications, please use a creditline, including 'Mauritshuis, The Hague'. More information.
Frans Post
View of Itamaracá Island in Brazil
Frans Post was one of the artists who travelled to Brazil with Johan Maurits. This landscape with a view of Itamaracá Island is the first painting that we know of by Post. And the first that a European painter made of Brazil.
Standing by the water are four men: two Portuguese and two enslaved Africans. Their presence makes the painting more than just a simple Brazilian landscape – Post inadvertently shows us that the inequality between black and white was linked to skin colour.
