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| A Brazilian Landscape |
Artist:Frans Post (Dutch, Haarlem 1612–1680 Haarlem)
Date:1650
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Rogers Fund, special funds, James S. Deely Gift, and Gift of Edna H. Sachs and other gifts and bequests, by exchange, 1981
Post accompanied Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen when he served as governor for the West India Company in northeastern Brazil (1637–44). The artist’s drawings became the basis for the first illustrated book on Brazil (Amsterdam, 1647) and for the exotic landscapes he painted back in his native Haarlem. Rare as an iguana or a cactus to Dutch eyes was Post’s ability to describe foreign plants, animals, and other sights in great detail (native huts and ships appear in the distance) and—at the same time—land and sky as momentary glimpses of infinity.
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