# 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".
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 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.

## Paintings

| Title | Date | Medium and size | Other information | Collection / Location |
| View of the Island of Itamaracá, Brazil | 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 | 1638 | Oil on canvas, 62 × 95 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| The Ox Cart — Brazilian Landscape | 1638 | Oil on canvas, 61 × 88 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| View of Frederiksstad in Paraíba, Brazil | 1638 | Oil on canvas, 61 × 91.4 cm | | Fundación Cisneros, Caracas |
| The Rio São Francisco and Fort Maurits, with a Capybara in the Foreground | 1639 | Oil on canvas, 62 × 95 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| Landscape near Porto Calvo, with a Fig Tree in the Foreground | 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"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Landscape of Pernambuco | c. 1644–1659 | Oil on panel, 34.3 × 47.3 cm | Unsigned. | 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"). | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| A village in Brazil | c. 1645–1680 | Oil on panel, 51.1 x 59.1 cm | | Royal Collection, London |
| Brazilian landscape with Manoah's sacrifice | 1648 | Oil on canvas, 167 x 193 cm | | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| Brazilian landscape with anteater | 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"). | Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo |
| Brazilian landscape | 1650 | Oil, unknown dimensions | | Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam |
| A Brazilian landscape | 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 | 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. | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| Sugar mill | mid-17th century | Oil on canvas, 90.8 × 115.5 cm | Unsigned. Contested authorship. | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| Village on a wooded plain | mid-17th century | Oil on panel, 46 × 75 cm | | Itaú Unibanco collection, São Paulo |
| Landscape of Paraíba – Sugar mill with a river | mid-17th century | Oil on panel, 93 x 79cm | | Palácio Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro |
| Landscape | mid-17th century | Oil on panel, 22.5 × 32.5 cm | | Museu do Estado de Pernambuco, Recife |
| Landscape | 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"). | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| Ruins of the Mother Church of Olinda | 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 | c. 1650–1655 | Oil on canvas, 101 x 136 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River | 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) | c. 1650–1655 | Oil on canvas, 112 x 146 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| Three Different Houses, or "Homes of the Labradores who Plant Sugar" | c. 1650–1655 | Oil on canvas, 104x 130 cm | | Louvre, Paris |
| Landscape in Brazil | 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 | c. 1653 | Oil on panel, 48.2 x 83.6 cm | | Private collection, São Paulo |
| Settlement in Brazil | 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. | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Brazilian landscape with a worker's house | c. 1655 | Oil on panel, 47 × 62.9 cm | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| Brazilian landscape with a house under construction | c. 1655–1660 | Oil on panel, 46 x 70 cm | | Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| Brazilian landscape | 1656 | Oil on panel, 41 x 59 cm | | Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem |
| Plantation settlement in Brazil | 1656 | Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm | | Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, on deposit at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
| Brazilian landscape | 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). | 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 | 1659 | Oil on panel, 40 × 61 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Lowlands | 1659 | Oil on panel, 39 x 60 cm | Signed and dated ("F. Post 1659). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Huts | 1659 | Oil on panel, 34 × 51 cm | Signed and dated ("F. Post 1659"). | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| Village in the interior of Pernambuco | 1660 | Oil on panel, 55 x 84 cm | | Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo |
| Landscape in Brazil with Sugar Plantation | 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"). | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| Landscape with a boa | c. 1660 | Oil on canvas, 119 × 172 cm | Signed ("F. Post"). | Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo |
| Landscape | c. 1660 | Oil on panel, 20 × 30 cm | Unsigned. | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Village of Olinda, Brazil | 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"). | 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. | 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. | Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo |
| Landscape with river and forest | c. 1660–1667 | Oil on panel, 63 × 93 cm | | Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo |
| Landscape with a front porch house | c. 1660–1667 | Oil on panel, 21 × 26.5 cm | | Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano, São Paulo |
| Waterfall with indians | 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"). | 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. | 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. | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Village and chapel with portico | c. 1660–1669 | Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 70 cm | Signed ("F. Post"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| View of the area around Olinda | 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"). | National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
| The Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian and The Franciscan Monastery at Igaraçu, Brazil | 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 | 1662 | Oil on canvas, 107.5 × 172.5 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Brazilian landscape or Rural landscape in Brazil | 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"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Ruins of the Mother Church of Olinda | c. 1665 | Oil on canvas, 86 x 114 cm | | Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro |
| Brazilian landscape | 1665 | Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 83.5 cm | | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit |
| Brazilian landscape | 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"). | 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"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Landscape of Paraíba | 1665 | Oil on panel, 45 x 53 cm | Signed ("F. Post"). | Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro |
| View of the Ruins of Olinda, Brazil | 1665 | Oil on canvas, 79.8 x 111.4 cm | | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
| Landscape in Brazil | c. 1665–1669 | Oil on canvas, 66 x 88 cm | | National Gallery, London |
| Landscape in Brazil | c. 1665–1669 | Oil on canvas, 66 x 88 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Sugar mill with a chapel | 1667 | Oil on panel, 41 × 53 cm | | Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano São Paulo |
| Landscape of Pernambuco – Indians hunting and fighting | 1667 | Oil on panel, 57.8 x 72.5 cm | | Palácio Laranjeiras Rio de Janeiro |
| Ipojuca Village | 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 | 1667 | Oil on panel, 50 x 69 cm | | Mauritshuis, The Hague |
| River landscape in Pernambuco | 1668 | Oil on panel, 47 x 55 cm | Signed and dated ("1668 – F. Post"). | Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo |
| Sugar mill | c. 1670 | Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 66 cm | Unsigned. | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Landscape on the Rio Senhor de Engenho, Brazil | c. 1670–1680 | Oil on panel, 22.5 × 28 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Brazilian landscape | 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"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Village | c. 1670–1680 | Oil on panel, 54.9 x 62.9 cm | Signed ("F. Post"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Northeastern Landscape | c. 1670–1680 | Oil on panel, 7.9 x 11.4 cm | Signed ("F. Post"). | Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife |
| Church Building in Brazil | c. 1675–1680 | Oil on panel, 16.5 × 25 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Brazilian Village | c. 1675–1680 | Oil on panel, 20.5 × 26.5 cm | | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |