Title

View of Olinda, Brazil, 1662. Creator: Frans Post.

Caption

View of Olinda, Brazil, 1662. Tempted by Brazil's sugar plantations, in the 1630s the Dutch captured much of Portugal's colony on South America's western coast. They were forced to withdraw in the 1650s. Frans Post went to Brazil from 1636 to 1644 to sketch and paint the country and its inhabitants. Back in the Netherlands, he continued to paint real and imaginary Brazilian landscapes.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A67_332

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

83,2Mb (4,4Mb) / 22,8in x 14,2in / 6848 x 4248 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe Brazil South America animal building agriculture animals historical landscape fruit painting country figure figures continent museum Netherlands Dutch color colony Brazilian Baroque plantation location century Colonial concept Olinda pernambuco 17th century Colour golden age history historic seventeenth century colonialism Rijksmuseum sugar plantation TGN building exterior Nordeste region Baroque Era Dutch Golden Age Oil on canvas Painting Heritage Art Frans Post Post Frans Poost Frans Jansz Frans Jansz Poost Low Countries Frans Janszoon Post Post Frans Jansz Frans Jansz Post