Landscape with Ruins in Olinda

Frans Post (Dutch, 1612–1680)

1663

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions22.9 x 29.2 cm (9 x 11 1/2 in.)
Framed: 34.3 x 40.3 cm (13 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2021.707

On View

On view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsSigned and dated lower left: F. Post. 1663Provenance18th century, private collection, Switzerland; until 2007, by descent within the family; July 4, 2007, anonymous ("Property of a Gentleman") sale, Sotheby’s, London, lot 32. 2007, sold by Johnny Van Haeften Ltd., London to Thomas Kaplan, New York [see note 1]. 2013, Johnny Van Haeften Ltd.; 2014, sold by Johnny Van Haeften Ltd. to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA [see note 2]; 2021, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2021)

NOTES:
[1] Buyer identified by Frederik J. Duparc in Dutch and Flemish Masterworks: From the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (Boston, 2020), p. 82.

[2] According to Duparc 2020 (see above, note 1), p. 82.