Author: POST, FRANS. Larsen, Erik.
Title: Frans Post. Interprète du Brésil. Avec un préface par Jacques Lavalleye.
Description: Amsterdam & Rio de Janeiro, 1962. 293 pp. 1 col. frontispiece & 100 b./w. plts. Hardcover, d./j.Published in a limited edition of 800 numbered copies. (nr. 777). - Rather rare monograph on the Dutch artist Frans Janszoon Post (17 November 1612 - 17 February 1680). Frans Post was a painter during the Dutch Golden Age. He was the first European artist to paint landscapes of the Americas, during and after the period of Dutch Brazil. In 1636 he traveled to Dutch Brazil in northeast of South America at the invitation of the governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen. His works were widely collected in The Netherlands, Europe, and Brazil, with the works showing an idealized vision of Dutch colonial rule.

Keywords: Dutch Art 17th century Nederlandse kunst 17e eeuw