# Hacienda [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POST, Frans]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 45 x 65 cm ## Commentary From 1I637 to 1644, Post accompanied the retinue of Prince Johan Maurits of Nassau Siegen to Brazil, where he painted the landscape around Pernambuco and on a number of oceanic islands, as well as genre scenes of local life. This Dutch artist's sensitivity to specific situations, landscape and people make Post's Brazilian paintings an invaluable source of information regarding not only the flora and fauna of the region, but also the dress and customs of the time. On his return, Post settled in Haarlem and, like all his Dutch colleagues, he specialized, concentrating especially on tropical and exotic views. In his paintings, we note that, although he supplies details and specific information about this far-off land, the paintings themselves are nevertheless organized along the lines of conventional Dutch landscape paintings. The gaze of the spectator is drawn from the foreground into the depths of the landscape. This distant view with atmospheric changes and a large proportion of sky, are typical features of Dutch painting. Genre-type figures are also included in the compositional structure of these Brazilian scenes. ## Related artworks - [A Brazilian Landscape]() - [Brazilian Landscape \(detail\)]() - [Brazilian Landscape]() - [Brazilian Landscape with Anteater]() - [Brazilian Landscape with Labourers]() - [Landscape in Brazil]() - [The Church of Sts Cosmas and Damian and the Franciscan Monastery at Igaraçu, Brazil]() - [The Home of a "Labrador" in Brazil]() - [The Ox Cart]() - [View of Frederiksstad in Paraiba, Brazil]() - [View of Olinda, Brazil \(detail\)]() - [View of Olinda, Brazil]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()