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Frans Post

View of Olinda, Brazil, with the Ruins of the Jesuit Church

Auction Closed

May 21, 02:59 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Frans Post

Haarlem 1612 - 1680

View of Olinda, Brazil, with the Ruins of the Jesuit Church


signed and dated lower right on rocks: F. POST 1666

oil on western European oak panel

panel: 23 ¾ by 35 ⅝ in.; 58.4 by 88.9 cm

framed: 30 ¾ by 42 ⅛ in.; 76.2 by 106.7 cm

Louis Routy de Charodon (1710-1794), Seigneur de Grésigny and de Charodon, Beaune (according to an ex-libris affixed to the painting's verso);

Guillaume Sabatier (1730-1808), Hôtel de Durfort, 5, Place Vendôme, Paris;

His estate sale, Paris, Paillet and Delaroche, 21 March 1809, lot 43;

Where acquired by Charles Simon, probably on behalf of Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839), for 160 francs;

Private collection, Connecticut;

By whom consigned to Peter Nahum at the Leicester Gallery, London;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1998.

P. Corrêa do Lago, O Olhar distante, The Distant View, exhibition catalogue, São Paulo 2000, vol. XIII, p. 106, reproduced (in reverse);

P. and B. Corrêa do Lago, Frans Post, 1612-1680: Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 2007, p. 262, cat. no. 93, reproduced (in reverse);

A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 78-82, 170, cat. no. 16, reproduced.

São Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, O Olhar distante, The Distant View, 23 April - 7 September 2000;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 16.