This postcard pictures four paintings from the The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow.
The two stamps with the yellow border were issued in 1974. The painting on the top row is a market scene by Joachim Beuckelaer (1533–1574), a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes. Below that is “Woman Selling Fish” by Pieter Pietersz (1540-1603), a Dutch Renaissance painter.
In the center of the bottom row is a 1971 stamp with “Girl Fruit-seller” by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), a Spanish Baroque painter. .
On the left side of the postcard is a 1970 stamp with a painting of Actress Jeane Samary by French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
Hello postcardy! thank you for your contribution, very apt.
ReplyDeleteGreat stamps. The Dutch artists were new to me.
ReplyDeleteI always like the large format Russia use for painting stamps.
ReplyDeletei am by no means an art expert but i very much enjoy dutch art with its everyday scenes
ReplyDeleteThat’s a museum I’d never heard of - but I had heard of the artists!
ReplyDeletethe postcard is awesome! it actually even looks like a souvenir sheet!
ReplyDeleteWonderful postcard!
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting selection of stamps on the postcard. The Russians seem to do these postcards of stamp collages often.
ReplyDelete