Saturday, July 19, 2014

Paintings on Soviet Postage Stamps



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).


This is a post for Sunday Stamps at Viridian's Postcard Blog


8 comments:

  1. Hello postcardy! thank you for your contribution, very apt.

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  2. Great stamps. The Dutch artists were new to me.

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  3. I always like the large format Russia use for painting stamps.

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  4. i am by no means an art expert but i very much enjoy dutch art with its everyday scenes

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  5. That’s a museum I’d never heard of - but I had heard of the artists!

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  6. the postcard is awesome! it actually even looks like a souvenir sheet!

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  7. That's an interesting selection of stamps on the postcard. The Russians seem to do these postcards of stamp collages often.

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