![Frans Post - Brazilian Landscape with a Worker's House [c.1655] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/9099708952_a9b96c6bde.jpg)
Frans Post - Brazilian Landscape with a Worker's House [c.1655], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Frans Post (Dutch, 1612 – 1680) travelled to Brazil in 1636, commissioned by the Dutch governor Johan Maurits to record the landscape and sugar industry of the then Dutch colony. Painted ten years after Post’s return to the Netherlands, this scene of a rush-roofed worker’s house set against a deep landscape captures both the reality and the fantasy of Brazil. The positive image of the African slaves in clean, colonial dress dancing in the foreground reflects the idealised view of European peasants found in mid-seventeenth century paintings and poetry.
[Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - Oil on panel, 46.99 x 62.86 cm]