Frans Jansz. Post
HAARLEM CIRCA 1612 - 1680
BRAZILIAN LANDSCAPE WITH LABORERS, AN ARMADILLO AND A TAMANDUA
Dr. Wenzel Karl Ambrozi (1758-1813), Bohemia;
His estate sale, Prague, 1815 (no date known), sold for 60 florins;
Private sale between the members of the Gesellschaft patriotischer Kunstfreunde (GPKF), Bohemia, 30 December 1816, where bought by Georg Franz August von Buquoy (1781-1851) and lent to the Gesellschaft patriotischer Kunstfreunde (GPKF), Bohemia (Buquoy was one of the founders of the GPKF and bought up to 70 paintings for the GPKF; see catalogue note);
Gesellschaft patriotischer Kunstfreunde (GPKF), Bohemia and later Prague, by 1816 (the GPKF formed the foundation for the Národní Galerie; see Slavíček 2002-03);
Národní Galerie, Prague, until probably circa 1968 (inv. no. O-8728); 1
Exchanged by the Národní Galerie with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, circa 1968;
With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna;
With Hirschl & Adler, New York, 1975;
With Julia Kraus, Paris, 1976;
With P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1982;
Robert H. Smith, Washington, D.C., until 1983;
Private collection, Amsterdam, 1983-1990;
David Koetser, 1990.
Bohemia/Prague, Gesellschaft patriotischer Kunstfreunde (GPKF), by 1815 or 1816;
Prague, Národní Galerie, Rudolphinum, until after 1965 (inv. no. 588);
Prague, Národní Galerie, Holandské Kraijinàrstvi 17. Stoleti (Dutch Landscapes of the 17th Century), 1965, no. 85;
Paris, Galerie Julia Kraus, Tableaux et dessins des maitres anciens hollandais et flamands, 1976, no. 19;
New York, The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fine Arts of The Netherlands: Dutch Art Galleries in New York. 17 - 19th Century Master Paintings and Antiquities, 20 - 28 November 1982 (exhibited by P. de Boer);
New Brunswick, NJ, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, 20 February - 17 April 1983, no. 101;
Basel, Kunsthalle; Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Frans Post 1612 - 1680 - Paradiesische Landschaft, 13 May- 16 September 1990, pp. 76-77;
Zurich, David Koetser Gallery, Fine Old Master Paintings Principally of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, 1990, no. 2;
Birmingham, 1995, no. 16;
New Orleans 1997, no. 41;
Baltimore 1999, no. 40.
G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Ölbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, vol. 2, Berlin 1864, p. 283, cat. no. 11;
Katalog der Gemälde-Galerie im Künstlerhause Rudolphinum zu Prag, Prague 1889, p. 184, cat. no. 558 (E.C. 1285, and date of entrance of 1815);
P. Bergner, Katalog Obrazárny v Domě umělců Rudolfinu v Praze, Prague 1905, cat. no. 497;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Kunstler-Lexikon, vol. 2, Vienna-Leipzig 1910, p. 347;
Katalog der Gemälde-Galerie im Künstlerhause Rudolphinum zu Prag, Prague 1912, p. 167, cat. no. 497 (inv. no. DO 91);
P. Souto Maior, "A arte Hollandesa no Brasil," in Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro 83, Rio de Janeiro 1919, p. 117;
R.C. Smith, "The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post," in The Art Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4, 1938, p. 265, cat. no. 42;
J. de Sousa-Leão, Frans Post, Rio de Janeiro 1948, p. 100, cat. no. 56;
A. Guimarães, "Na Holanda com Frans Post", in Revista do Instituto e Geográfica Brasileiro, 335, April-June 1957, pp. 100-102 and 205, cat. no. 221, reproduced;
J. Sip, Dutch Painting in the Prague National Gallery, London 1961, cat. no. 54, reproduced;
E. Larsen, Frans Post: interprète du Brésil, Amsterdam 1962, p. 195, cat. no. 69;
J. Sip, in Holandské Kraijinàrstvi 17. Stoleti, exhibition catalogue, Prague 1965, p. 38, cat. no. 85, reproduced fig. 35;
J. de Sousa-Leão, Frans Post 1612-1680, Amsterdam 1973, p. 121, cat. no. 94, reproduced;
Tableau, November/December 1982, p. 148 (in a special advertorial section dedicated to the 1982-exhibition);
F.F. Hofrichter, in Haarlem, The Seventeenth Century, exhibition catalogue, New Brunswick, NJ 1983, p. 119, cat. no. 101, reproduced in color p. 15, plate 11, p. 140, under cat. no. 131;
T. Kellein and U.-B. Frei, in Frans Post 1612 - 1680 - Paradiesische Landschaft, exhibition catalogue, Basel 1990, pp. 76-77, reproduced;
New Orleans 1997, pp. 101-103, cat. no. 41, reproduced;
Baltimore 1999, pp. 90-92, cat. no. 40, reproduced;
L. Slavíček, "Die Auktionen der Gesellschaft patriotischer Kunstfreunde in den Jahren 1796-1835" in Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague, no. 12-13 (2002-2003), pp. 43 and 49 (no. EC 1285);
L. Slavíček, '"Nachlass eines Kunstkenners und Gelehrten". Collection of MUDr. Sbírka MUDr. Václav Karel Ambrozi (1758-1813) and its connection to the Picture Gallery of the Society Patriotic Friends of Arts', in In Italiam nos fata trahunt, sequamur. Sborník příspěvků k 75. narozeninám Olgy Pujmanové. 1. vyd. Praha: Společnost přátel Národní galerie v Praze, 2003, p. 129;
P. and B. Corrêa do Lago, Frans Post, 1612-1680, Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 2007, p. 302, cat. no. 121, reproduced (as probably dating from the early 1670s).