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Church Building in Brazil
Also titled Kerkelijk gebouw in Brazilië
Frans Jansz Post (Haarlem, 1612–1680)
1675 - 1680
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 16.5 cm x width 25 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Frans Post spent eight years in Dutch Brazil. 35 years later, he was still painting the same ‘Brazilian’ scenes, including this one. The scene here is set against the backdrop of a meadow and features a cross between a church and a Franciscan monastery, reminiscent of structures found in coastal towns, such as Igarassu and Ipojuca in the Pernambuco region. Unlike the figures and buildings in his earlier works, the ones here are rendered quickly and crudely.
