List of paintings by Frans Post

This article lists paintings by Frans Post (1612–1680), a Dutch Golden Age artist who was the first European to paint landscapes of the Americas. Frans Post disembarked in Brazil in 1637, following the retinue of John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who had recently been appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Northeast Brazil by the Dutch West India Company. Along with Albert Eckhout and Zacharias Wagener, Post was in charge of documenting the new Dutch colonies in South America, but while his companions were devoted to depicting the Brazilian flora, fauna, and people, he focused exclusively on the landscapes of the so-called "New Holland".^[1][2][3]

Portrait of Frans Post (c. 1655), by Frans Hals (Worcester Art Museum).

Frans Post returned to Europe in 1644, after producing a limited number of in loco artworks, of which only seven have survived. Nevertheless, the exoticism of his landscapes, rich in tropical details yet unknown to the European public, soon attracted the attention of new clients. As a result, Post would devote the rest of his artistic career to the production of paintings with Brazilian themes, based on the sketches and drawings of what he had observed onsite. Post's known output numbers about 160 paintings, practically all of them of Brazilian landscapes. With one known exception^[4] he did not date his paintings, making it difficult to establish a precise timeline of his production. A large part of his oeuvre is currently housed in Brazilian museums and collections (Ricardo Brennand Institute in Recife, National Museum of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo Museum of Art, etc.), but several examples of his works may be found around the world, mainly in Europe (Louvre, Rijksmuseum) and the United States. In the following list, artworks are presented in loose chronological order.^[1]

Paintings

Image	Title	Date	Medium and size	Other information	Collection / Location
	View of the Island of Itamaracá, Brazil [5]	1637	Oil on canvas, 63.5 × 89.5 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague)
	The Old Portuguese Forte dos Reis Magos, or Fort Ceulen, at the Mouth of the Rio Grande [6]	1638	Oil on canvas, 62 × 95 cm		Louvre, Paris
	The Ox Cart — Brazilian Landscape [7]	1638	Oil on canvas, 61 × 88 cm		Louvre, Paris
	View of Frederiksstad in Paraíba, Brazil [8]	1638	Oil on canvas, 61 × 91.4 cm		Fundación Cisneros, Caracas
	The Rio São Francisco and Fort Maurits, with a Capybara in the Foreground [9]	1639	Oil on canvas, 62 × 95 cm		Louvre, Paris
	Landscape near Porto Calvo, with a Fig Tree in the Foreground [10]	1639	Oil on panel, 63 × 89 cm		Louvre, Paris
	Fort Fredrik Hendrik	1640	Oil on canvas, 66 x 88 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1640").[11]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Landscape of Pernambuco	c. 1644–1659	Oil on panel, 34.3 × 47.3 cm	Unsigned.[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Igarassu	c. 1644–1659	Oil on panel, 33.4 × 41.4 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	A village in Brazil [13]	c. 1645–1680	Oil on panel, 51.1 x 59.1 cm		Royal Collection, London
	Brazilian landscape with Manoah's sacrifice [14]	1648	Oil on canvas, 167 x 193 cm		Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
	Brazilian landscape with anteater [15]	1649	Oil on canvas, 53 × 69.4 cm		Alte Pinakothek, Munich
	Brazilian landscape with an armadillo	1649	Oil on canvas, 53 x 69 cm		Alte Pinakothek, Munich
	Paulo Afonso Falls	1649	Oil on panel, 58.5 × 46 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1649").[16]	Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
	Brazilian landscape	1650	Oil, unknown dimensions		Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
	A Brazilian landscape [17]	1650	Oil on panel, 61 x 91.4 cm		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	View of Olinda	c. 1650	Oil on canvas, 90 × 122 cm		Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin, São Paulo
	Ruins of the Mother Church of Olinda	mid-17th century	Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 86.5 cm		Private collection, Rio de Janeiro
	Landscape with chapel [18]	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 43.5 x 58.7 cm	.	Fundación Cisneros, Caracas
	Lowlands	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 38 × 57.2 cm	Unsigned.[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Sugar mill	mid-17th century	Oil on canvas, 90.8 × 115.5 cm	Unsigned.[12] Contested authorship.	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Village on a wooded plain [19]	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 46 × 75 cm		Itaú Unibanco collection, São Paulo
	Landscape of Paraíba – Sugar mill with a river [20]	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 93 x 79cm		Palácio Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro
	Landscape [21]	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 22.5 × 32.5 cm		Museu do Estado de Pernambuco, Recife
	Landscape [21]	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 22.5 × 32.5 cm		Museu do Estado de Pernambuco, Recife
	Franciscan monastery in Igaraçu	mid-17th century	Oil on panel, 48 x 70 cm		Historisches Museum, Frankfurt
	Sugar mill in Pernambuco	17th century	Oil on panel, 50 × 74.5 cm		Palácio Itamaraty, Brasília
	Village and a coconut tree	17th century	Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 68 cm	Signed ("F.Post").	Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	Brazilian landscape with a procession of blacks	17th century	Oil on panel, 48 x 65 cm		Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	Village	17th century	Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 67 cm		Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Igarassu	17th century	Oil on panel, 39 × 48.5 cm		Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin, São Paulo
	Sugar mill	17th century	Oil on canvas, 67 × 89 cm		Museu da Chácara do Céu, Rio de Janeiro
	Brazilian Landscape with the Monastery of Igaraçú	17th century	Oil on panel, 55 x 69 cm		Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
	View of Olinda	c. 1650–1655	Oil on panel, 79 x 111.5 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Ruins of the Mother Church of Olinda [22]	c. 1650–1655	Oil on panel, 45 x 70 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	A Monastery of the Capuchin Fathers — The House of a Portuguese Nobleman [23]	c. 1650–1655	Oil on canvas, 101 x 136 cm		Louvre, Paris
	A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River [24]	c. 1650–1655	Oil on canvas, 117 x 167 cm		Louvre, Paris
	The Home of a "Labrador" (Sugar Cane Planter) in Brazil (or The Village of Serinhaem) [25]	c. 1650–1655	Oil on canvas, 112 x 146 cm		Louvre, Paris
	Three Different Houses, or "Homes of the Labradores who Plant Sugar" [26]	c. 1650–1655	Oil on canvas, 104x 130 cm		Louvre, Paris
	Landscape in Brazil [27]	1652	Oil on canvas, 282.5 × 210.5 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Brazilian landscape ("Hacienda")	c. 1652	Oil on panel, 45 × 65 cm		Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz
	View of Mauritsstad and Recife [28]	c. 1653	Oil on panel, 48.2 x 83.6 cm		Private collection, São Paulo
	Settlement in Brazil [29]	1654	Oil on panel, 51 x 70 cm		Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
	Wall with horses and slaves	c. 1655	Oil on panel, 19.5 x 19.5 cm	Unsigned. Probably a fragment of a larger painting.[30]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Brazilian landscape with a worker's house [31]	c. 1655	Oil on panel, 47 × 62.9 cm		Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
	Brazilian landscape with a house under construction [32]	c. 1655–1660	Oil on panel, 46 x 70 cm		Mauritshuis, The Hague
	Brazilian landscape [33]	1656	Oil on panel, 41 x 59 cm		Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
	Plantation settlement in Brazil [34]	1656	Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm		Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, on deposit at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Brazilian landscape [35]	1656	Oil on panel, 59 × 94 cm		Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
	Waterfall in the forest	1657	Oil on panel, 47 x 44 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1657).[36]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	River crossing the lowlands	1658	Oil on canvas, 62 x 87,5 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1658).	Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	Brazilian landscape with the village of Igaraçú. To the left the church of Sts Cosmas and Damian [37]	1659	Oil on panel, 40 × 61 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Lowlands	1659	Oil on panel, 39 x 60 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1659).[38]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Huts	1659	Oil on panel, 34 × 51 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1659").[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Village in the interior of Pernambuco [22]	1660	Oil on panel, 55 x 84 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	Landscape in Brazil with Sugar Plantation [22]	1660	Oil on canvas, 87 x 113 cm		Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
	View of a sugar mill	c. 1660	Oil on panel, 25.7 × 41.4 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	Landscape with a boa	c. 1660	Oil on canvas, 119 × 172 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[39]	Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
	Landscape	c. 1660	Oil on panel, 20 × 30 cm	Unsigned.[38]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Village of Olinda, Brazil [40]	c. 1660	Oil on canvas, 82.5 × 130.81 cm		Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
	The Sugar Factory and Plantation of Engenho Real	c. 1660	Oil on panel, 71.5 x 91.5 cm		Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
	Landscape with an antbear	after 1660	Oil on panel, 56 x 79 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[41]	Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
	Rural landscape	c. 1660–1667	Oil on panel, 30 x 37 cm	Possibly a pendant of Ruins of Olinda, housed in the same collection.[22]	Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	Ruins of Olinda	c. 1660–1667	Oil on panel, 30 x 37 cm	Possibly a pendant of Rural landscape, housed in the same collection.[22]	Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	Landscape with river and forest [22]	c. 1660–1667	Oil on panel, 63 × 93 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	Landscape with a front porch house [22]	c. 1660–1667	Oil on panel, 21 × 26.5 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	Waterfall with indians [22]	c. 1660–1667	Oil on panel, 30 x 35 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo
	River and village landscape	c. 1660–1669	Oil on panel, 35 x 89 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[42]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Sugar mill	c. 1660–1669	Oil on panel, 50 x 69 cm	Signed ("F. Post"). Pendant of Village and chapel with portico, housed in the same collection.[43]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Village and chapel with portico	c. 1660–1669	Oil on panel, 50 x 69 cm	Signed ("F. Post"). Pendant of Sugar mill, housed in the same collection.[44]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Village and chapel with portico	c. 1660–1669	Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 70 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[45]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	View of the area around Olinda [46]	c. 1660–1670	Oil on panel, 43.7 x 59 cm		Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
	Brazilian landscape	c. 1660–1670	Oil on panel, 48.3 x 62.2 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[47]	National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
	The Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian and The Franciscan Monastery at Igaraçu, Brazil [48]	c. 1660–1680	Oil on panel, 2.8 x 58.8 cm		Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, on deposit at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Sugar plantation	1661	Oil on panel, 43 x 48cm		Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	View of Olinda, Brazil [49]	1662	Oil on canvas, 107.5 × 172.5 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Brazilian landscape or Rural landscape in Brazil [50]	1664	Oil on panel, 34.3 x 41.3 cm		John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida,
	Landscape with ruins of Olinda	1664	Oil on panel, 34.3 x 47.7 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1664").[51]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Ruins of the Mother Church of Olinda [52]	c. 1665	Oil on canvas, 86 x 114 cm		Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro
	Brazilian landscape [53]	1665	Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 83.5 cm		Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
	Brazilian landscape [54]	1665	Oil on canvas, 46.8 × 62.1 cm		Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
	Landscape of Pernambuco with manor house	1665	Oil on panel, 59 x 94 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1665").[41]	Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
	Landscape with large tree to the right	1665	Oil on panel, 34 x 47 cm	Signed and dated ("F. Post 1665").[55]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Landscape of Paraíba	1665	Oil on panel, 45 x 53 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[12]	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro
	View of the Ruins of Olinda, Brazil [56]	1665	Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 111.4 cm		Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Landscape in Brazil [57]	c. 1665–1669	Oil on canvas, 66 x 88 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Sugar mill with a chapel [22]	1667	Oil on panel, 41 × 53 cm		Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano São Paulo
	Landscape of Pernambuco – Indians hunting and fighting [20]	1667	Oil on panel, 57.8 x 72.5 cm		Palácio Laranjeiras Rio de Janeiro
	Ipojuca Village [58]	1667	Oil on canvas, 45 × 59.7 cm		Coleção de Arte da Cidade de São Paulo (on loan to the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo), São Paulo
	Manor house on the lowlands	1667	Oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm	Signed and dated ("F.Post 1667").	Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection, São Paulo
	Brazilian landscape [59]	1667	Oil on panel, 50 x 69 cm		Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
	River landscape in Pernambuco	1668	Oil on panel, 47 x 55 cm	Signed and dated ("1668 – F. Post").[41]	Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
	Sugar mill	c. 1670	Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 66 cm	Unsigned.[60]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Landscape on the Rio Senhor de Engenho, Brazil [61]	c. 1670–1680	Oil on panel, 22.5 × 28 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Brazilian landscape [62]	c. 1670–1680	Oil on panel, 22.5 × 28 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Village with church	c. 1670–1680	Oil on panel, 30 x 39.5 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[63]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Village	c. 1670–1680	Oil on panel, 54.9 x 62.9 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[64]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Northeastern Landscape	c. 1670–1680	Oil on panel, 7.9 x 11.4 cm	Signed ("F. Post").[65]	Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife
	Church Building in Brazil [66]	c. 1675–1680	Oil on panel, 16.5 × 25 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
	Brazilian Village [67]	c. 1675–1680	Oil on panel, 20.5 × 26.5 cm		Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

See also

• Brazilian painting
• Dutch Brazil
• Dutch Golden Age painting