MOSTAERT, Jan
(b. ca. 1475, Haarlem, d. 1555/56, Haarlem)

West Indian Landscape

c. 1540
Oil on panel, 86 x 152 cm
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem

A rocky, exotic coastal landscape with huts, tropical birds, and a monkey. To the left, naked, white Indians(?). To the right, an attack by European soldiers. Possibly a depiction of an expedition led by the Spaniard Cortés to America (=the West Indies).




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