A Brazilian Landscape Frans Post Dutch 1650 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 615 From 1630 to 1654, the Dutch Republic maintained a colony in the north of Brazil. Post accompanied the governor to the area and filled sketchbooks with images of local flora and fauna. Post lived in Brazil from 1637 to 1644. He received 800 guilders for a landscape painting in the West Indies commissioned by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, leading Larsen to believe that Post set out for The Netherlands via Africa shortly before Nassau departed Brazil.
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Frans Post disembarked in Brazil in 1637, following the retinue of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who had recently been appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Northeast Brazil by the Dutch West India Company. 18 May 2022 The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post capture the dismal dawn of the colonial age The 17th-century Dutch artist was the first professional painter to record the New World - and the view was far from exotic. By Michael Prodger View of Itamaracá Island in Brazil, 1637, by Frans Post Frans Post was born on 17 November, 1612, in Haarlem, an artistically rich environment well known for its prominent landscape painters such as Jan van de Velde (c. 1593-1641), Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), Pieter de Molijn (1595-1661), Cornelis Vroom (1591-1661), Salomon van Ruysdael (c. 1600-1670), and, in the prime time of the genre, Jacob van Ru. 237 Landscape in Brazil, Frans Jansz Post, c. 1665 - c. 1669 oil on canvas, h 66cm × w 88cm × d 9.1cm More details Some motifs - for example the six-banded armadillo and the pineapple - recur repeatedly over decades in Post's paintings.
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Braziliaans landschap 1667 Frans Post 53 0 Braziliaans landschap 1650 Frans Post 32 0 Landscape on the Rio Senhor de Engenho, Brazil 1675 Frans Post 18 Frans Post travelled to Brazil in 1637 as part of the entourage of Governor Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen. Once there, he made paintings and drawings of the exotic landscape. On the artist's return to the Dutch Republic in 1644, he made romanticized 'Brazilian' landscapes, like this little panel. On display in room 2.10 Download image Title: A Brazilian Landscape Creator: Frans Post Date Created: 1650 Physical Dimensions: 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm) Type: Painting External Link:. Curious Creatures at the National Gallery of Ireland centres on a recently identified group of drawings that expand and enhance our understanding of the work and world of the 17th-century Dutch.
Museum Art Reproductions Brazilian Landscape (detail), 1650 by Frans
Frans Jansz. Post. Frans Post (1612-1680), a printmaker, painter and draughtsman, was born in Haarlem. He was the son of Jan Jansz. Post, a glass painter from Leiden, and younger brother of Pieter Post, a painter and architect. He may have worked at his brother Pieter's studio before 1636, when the latter recommended him to Johan Maurits van. 1652. In the foreground of this Brazilian river landscape, Frans Post painted exotic plants and animals. A sugar. plantation can be seen in the distance. The artist spent seven years in Brazil in the entourage of Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen, Governor of the Dutch West India Company. Johan Maurits early on commissioned Post to record the.
Painting Brazil for the Dutch art market, Frans Post, Landscape with Ruins in Olinda. Painting Brazil for the Dutch art market, Frans Post, Landscape with Ruins in Olinda. by Dr. Anna C. Knaap and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank. Frans Post, Landscape with Ruins in Olinda, 1663, oil on panel, 22.9 x 29.2 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The inter-relationship between the foreground of Frans Post's landscape paintings, containing representations of Brazil's fl ora and fauna, previously considered a decorative afterthought, and the middle/background, showing broader mapped terrains with sugar mills and slave labour, is explored.
Frans Post Landscape in Brazil (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) 16121680 フランス
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online. Frans Post. A painter, illustrator and engraver, Frans Post was born into a family of artists. He came to Brazil in 1637 at age 25 as part of Maurice of Nassau's entourage in Pernambuco (1630-54). He lived in Recife until 1644, a period in which he produced 18 landscapes, only seven of which are still known to exist.
