Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (right, on papaya tree): F POST / 1650
Gallery Label In 1637–44 Post accompanied Prince Johan Maurits of Nassau on a comprehensive exploration of northeastern Brazil. The first scientific description of Brazil, published in Amsterdam in 1647, included engraved plates after topographical drawings by Post.
Notes Post was a member of the 1637–44 expedition led by Prince Johan Maurits of Nassau to explore northeastern Brazil.
Provenance Popper, Prague (in 1946); E. Kellner, Rio de Janeiro (in 1947); E. Rais, Rio de Janeiro (until 1948); Octales Marcondes Ferreira, São Paulo (1948–at least 1973); [Noortman & Brod, New York, until 1981; sold to MMA]
Exhibition History Rio de Janeiro. Museu de Arte Moderna. "Os Pintores de Maurício de Nassau," May 21–July 7, 1968, no. 17.
Haus der Kunst München. "Frans Post (1612–1680): Maler des Verlorenen Paradieses," June 2–September 17, 2006, no. 8.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References Joaquim de Sousa Leão, filho. Frans Post . São Paulo, 1948, p. 99, no. 11, ill. p. 46.Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro 235 (April–June 1957), p. 258, no. 69.Frans Post . Amsterdam, 1962, p. 187, no. 15.Frans Post, 1612–1680 . Amsterdam, 1973, p. 65, no. 14, ill.Tableau 4 (January–February 1982), pp. 350–51, ill. (color).in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1981–1982 . New York, [1982], pp. 41–42, ill.A Guide to Dutch Art in America . Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 191.in The Dictionary of Art . 25, New York, 1996, p. 326.in Frans Post: Le Brésil à la cour de Louis XIV . Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris. Milan, 2005, p. 23, fig. III.10 (color).Frans Post (1612–1680): Maler des Verlorenen Paradieses . Exh. cat., Haus der Kunst München. Petersberg, Germany, 2006, pp. 21, 24, 78–80, 133, 147, no. 8, ill. (color).in Frans Post (1612–1680): Catalogue Raisonné . Milan, 2007, p. 73.Frans Post (1612–1680): Catalogue Raisonné . Milan, 2007, pp. 9, 42–43, 73, 128, 194, 339, no. 13, ill. pp. 128–29 (color, overall and detail).Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 532–34, no. 137, colorpl. 137, fig. 121 (color detail).Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 22, 62, fig. 72 (color).
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