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Brazilian Village
Also titled Braziliaans dorp
Frans Jansz Post (Haarlem, 1612–1680)
1675 - 1680
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 20.5 cm x width 26.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.P. van der Kellen Dzn.
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The province of Pernambuco, conquered by the Dutch, was home to a diverse population. Post distinguishes the various groups through the depiction of their distinct costumes. In the foreground, for instance, we see indigenous inhabitants dressed in white attire. Walking towards the veranda is a couple wearing European clothing, and a veiled woman and an African man carrying a basket on his head stand at the fence.
