A Brazilian Landscape
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
A Brazilian Landscape, painted in 1650 by the Dutch artist Frans Post, is a rare and precious document of the New World as seen by a European eye in the very years the Dutch controlled a slice of colonial Brazil. Post accompanied a Dutch expedition to the colony in 1637 and became the first European artist to paint the Americas from direct observation, filling his canvases with the palm trees, armadillos, and equatorial light that no European had ever painted firsthand.
Working back in the Netherlands from sketches and memory for decades after his return, Post developed a distinctive, almost naively precise style — meticulous botanical and zoological detail set within broad, calm compositions that read as much as ethnographic record as landscape painting. His Brazilian scenes remain unique in seventeenth-century art for their firsthand exoticism.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Frans Post |
| Year | 1650 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque (Dutch Golden Age) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
