Beautiful Women

Can angels be women???

I do not know it because when I bought this stamp I noticed mainly in "other things".

I always thought that Renoir had an obsession with beautiful young women

Great thread!

Does anyone know of any stamps depicting Empress Elizabeth (Sissi) of Austria-Hungary, supposedly among the most beautiful women of the late nineteenth century? I've seen some Austrian Cinderellas but no real postage stamps.

NBstamper, I have this 2010 sheet from Austria. I guess part of here beauty is her great hair.

Here is another Austrian one of the Empress Elizabeth for her
100th death Anniversary in 1998.
She was assassinated in Geneva by an Italian anarchist

Here is a stamp for the Austrian actress Romy Schneider
who portrayed the Empress in 3 Sissi movies.

Ever since I first saw the woman in Klimt's painting
The Kiss I thought she looked so very beautiful and
the painting itself is so erotic even though there
is no nudity.

Here is an Austrian stamp for 100 years of the
Vorarlberg textile industry.
The picture is of an anonymous beauty.

The "Gibson Girl," representing the composite of "thousands of American girls," was the personification of the feminine ideal of beauty as portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrations of American graphic artist Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here are images of a first day cover and of a stamp reproducing the artist's iconic "Gibson Girl" sketch, designed by American illustrator Richard Waldrep, engraved and printed by Ashton Potter (USA), Ltd., and issued by the USA on February 3, 1998 as one of 15 stamps in the 1900s "Celebrate the Century" pane, plus an image another classic Gibson Girl drawing, "Girls at the Seaside."

- nethryk

Not in real life. All Angels in the Bible are men.


-IBFS

Ingrid Bergman





-IBFS

I like this thread!

Here is another Swedish beauty, Jenny Lind.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind
Maybe not really beautiful but very pretty.

And beautifully engraved by the master Czeslaw Slania.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Dahomey woman, designed and engraved by Pierre Gandon, and issued for use in Dahomey (now Benin), French West Africa, in 1941, Scott No. 130. Note: The Dahomey Amazons or Mino were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey which lasted until the end of the 19th century (see photo). Perhaps this is why SG describes this stamp subject as a "Native Woman," while Scott describes her as a "Dahomey Warrior?"

- nethryk