Sugar Factory with Tower House, Frans Jansz Post, 1670 - 1680

oil on panel, h 22.5cm × w 28cm More details

This painting and the Brazilian landscape on view next to it are part of a series of landscapes that Frans Post painted on his return to the Netherlands from Brazil in 1644. The foreground figure carrying a basket on her head recurs regularly in his work.

Identification

Title(s)

Sugar Factory with Tower House
Landscape on the Senhor de Engenho river, Dutch Brazil

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-2334

Inscriptions / marks

signature: ‘F. Post’

Description

Braziliaans landschap bij de rivier Senhor de Engenho. In het midden een huis met een toren. Pendant van SK-A-2333.

Creation

Artist

painter: Frans Jansz Post (mentioned on object)

Dating

1670 - 1680

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 22.5 cm × width 28 cm

Subject

What

landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions

Where

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 1908

Copyright

Public domain

Relations

Braziliaans landschap

Documentation

Orte der Sehnsucht : mit Künstlern auf Reise, Hermann Arnhold, Andreas Beyer, p. 275
Frans Post (1612-1680) : catalogue raisonné, Bia Fonseca Corrêa do Lago, Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Frederik J. Duparc, p. 312, cat.nr. 131

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5086

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