This oil depicts a site on the São Francisco river, in the state of Pernambuco, that to date attracts a great number of tourists to the region. Frans Post was the first artist to render in painting the characteristic nature of northeast Brazil, its steel-blue sky, matte greenery, and intense lighting while transferring onto canvas, with the skillful perspective mastered by Dutch painters-cartographers, the characteristics of tropical landscape. The painting Paulo Afonso Waterfall, dated five years after Frans Post’s return to Holland, was redone by the artist with basis on sketches drawn from nature.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

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