Landscape in Brazil
From 1630 the Dutch West India Company (WIC) conquers parts of Brazil and ousts the Portuguese based there. Foiling the enemy is a main task of this trading company, and Portugal belongs to Spain in this time. The Dutch take over the profitable sugar production. Sugar is
cultivated on plantations, like the one in this painting. Enslaved Africans work there under wretched conditions. What is presented as an idyll to the Dutch, is actually a hellish reality for them.
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Landscape in Brazil
From 1630 the Dutch West India Company (WIC) conquers parts of Brazil and ousts the Portuguese based there. Foiling the enemy is a main task of this trading company, and Portugal belongs to Spain in this time. The Dutch take over the profitable sugar production. Sugar is
cultivated on plantations, like the one in this painting. Enslaved Africans work there under wretched conditions. What is presented as an idyll to the Dutch, is actually a hellish reality for them.
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From 1630 the Dutch West India ...... ly a hellish reality for them.
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Vanaf 1630 verovert de West-In ...... hen gruwelijke werkelijkheid.
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Rijksmuseum
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Landscape in Brazil
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Landschap in Brazilië
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created
1652
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1652
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breedte 210,5 cm
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height 282.5 cm
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hoogte 282,5 cm
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width 210.5 cm
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Collectie: schilderijen
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Collection: paintings
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? Commissioned by Pieter van d ...... enhage de Mist-Verspyck 1964.}
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temporal
derde kwart 17e eeuw
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third quarter 17th century
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