Art & Paintings On Stamps

Apparently Winslow Homer was quite the boozer. When asked why there were so many empty liquor bottles in his studio, his reply was along the lines of 'I don't know, I only bring full ones in here.'

Here is 3 out of 100 Rockwell classics.

Happy Birthday wishes to: Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. Here is an image of a semi-postal stamp designed by Charles Mazelin, partially after a Degas self-portrait (1855), engraved by Claude Hertenberger, and issued by France on June 11, 1960, Scott No. B346, Y&T No. 1262.

- nethryk

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was a pretty tough guy but
obviously an amazing painter who produced many masterpieces in his short, turbulent life.

Read here a bit about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio
I think I'll go to the library tomorrow to see if they have anything about this interesting character.

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Scott 1116

Here is an image of a stamp honoring Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov (1780–1847), a Russian painter of Greek descent, renowned for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people. Venetsianov's painting, "In the Ploughed Field: Spring," (1827), is an idealized depiction of the female agricultural worker in traditional Russian costume. This stamp was designed by R. Zhitkov, printed by photogravure and typography, and issued by the USSR (Russia) on June 21, 1955, Scott No. 1757.

- nethryk

After looking at the Venetsianov stamp, I'm left wondering
which part was printed typography.
The black portrait?

And why didn't they just print the whole thing photogravure?

lithograving - A bit odd, isn't it? Russia often used typography for stamp production well into the 1960s.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a work entitled "Church at Auvers-on-Oise" by Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), printed by heliogravure (and a fine example of that method, at that), and issued by France on October 27, 1979, Scott No. 1627, Y&T No. 2054.

- nethryk

Yes nethryk it is odd . Scott states that Russia No. 1757 is printed photogravure wheras Michel says offset.
Any chance to see a close up with part of the portrait and part painting?


When you mention heliogravure (and a fine example of that method, at that) do you mean that it is a different print
method as compared to photogravure?

Basically heliogravure, photogravure, rotogravure are all one of the same I believe, even though
the term heliogravure was the name given it by its inventor the Frenchman Joseph Niepce.

Nice Van Gogh stamp btw, I could look at his paintings for hours.

lithograving - 1. Re Russia No. 1757, mystery solved: This stamp is in fact all photogravure. Typography was used only on the Venezianov souvenir sheet of four stamps issued on the same day, Scott No. 1757a. 2. Agreed, these terms are synonymous: Heliogravure is merely the French term for photogravure. 3. Glad you liked the van Gogh painting stamp, also. - nethryk

Thanks nethryk.

Do you have Scott No. 1757a, so we could see it please?

lithograving - Sadly, no, I don't have an example of 1757a to scan. - nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp designed after "La sente du chou, near Pontoise," (1878), a work by French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), engraved by Jean Pheulpin, and issued by France on April 18, 1981, Scott No. 1729, Y&T No. 2136, plus a photo of the original painting. Another mystery: I'm not sure why Jacques Gauthier's name also appears on this stamp, as I have been unable to find any source crediting a role in either the design or the engraving of this stamp to him.

- nethryk

From the set...

Thats a terrible likeness of Pissarro's painting.
It's like a caricature of the original, Pissarro would turn in his grave
if he knew what they did to his work.

Like I said before paintings especially large,wide open scenes do not
translate well unto stamps.

Sometimes, depending on the printer it works for the whole painting but usually if only a cropped detail is portrayed.

But this one is just awful IMO.

Edited to add the missing rrs in Pissarro's name.