Thematic : Umbrellas On Stamps.

"Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes on upon the sea and along its shores." (Wiki) He painted several scenes of people at the ocean, often they have an umbrella. The weather in this painting of a lady alone on the beach looks a bit dark, stamp of 1987.

The UN, Geneva, issued a panorama drawing on a set of five setenant stamps for the second summit on city and village habitat in 1996. On the left it begins with a rural eastern scene and extends to the west on the right to a park scene. Artwork by Teresa Fasolino.

The artist Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915) did drawings and paintings of people in commonplace situations. His work is featured in three Berlin stamps of 1969. Two of them show umbrellas as they were at about the turn of the century. The Newspaper peddler and a chat at the Brandenburg Gate.

Amazing contributions Kris.
You continually pull the rabbit from the hat.

From a set of four semipostal stamps for the Red Cross featuring the seasons, this one with rabbits for autumn. Engraving Lambert, 1975.

(Hi Rod, These two just came out of the hat for you. K.)

From the same set, but 1974, the semipostal for the Red Cross featuring summer.

"The lady of the umbrella", located on the Parc de la Ciutadella and dating from late XIX century, is a wellknown Barcelona's landmark.

Standing on the top of an ornamental fountain designed by Josep Fontseré, the marble sculpture was created by Roig Soler, unveiled in 1855, and decorated the grounds of the 1888 Universal Exhibition held in the Parc de la Ciutadella. Now her replica is at the grounds of the zoo. It's a good thing she has an umbrella because it keeps her protected from a different kind of precipitation.

(Hi Cursus, I hope you don't mind my adding her picture; I remember sitting under the trees in the background. Do you sometimes visit her? K.)

Hei Kris. You're mostly true. Just some corrections. "The lady of the umbrella" is a work of 1885. By 1855, the site was still an Spanish army fort. We even know the model, she was Josefina Alimbau, a niece of the sculptor and from the same city as him, Reus.
When I was a child, I liked to visit her, as it meant going to the zoo, which we loved.
Lately, I'm also visiting her quite often, as the Parc of la ciutadella, is also where the current siege of Catalan Parliament (dating from XII century). And, due to our ongoing fight for independence, it's one of the main concentration places of the Catalonia's Independence Movement demonstrations.

A sommer afternoon in the garden, by Claude Monet, 1840-1926 (see also page 3). Monet was a genius with colors. Stamp of 1972.

Hello Cursus, Thanks for the information! You do know the Lady better than most anyone; but I got that date from the site of the zoo club itself. Please give her my greetings next time you visit. K.

His Kris, I'm Planning to visit her next Sunday. So I'll give your greeting for her!

Giuseppe De Nittis (1846–1884) was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th century. He spent time in Paris as well as in London and Italy. The original painting at the race course in the Bois de Boulogne shows more umbrellas than in the stamp, not to mention one more lady! (stamp of 1984).

Postal Life Insurance was introduced in 1884 in India. It was originally for the benefit of postal employees and later extended. From 1894 it also covered female employees at a time when no other insurance company covered female lives. It is the oldest life insurer in this country. Stamp, sticker and logo.

Another stamp in which the umbrella symbolizes protection: here against acid rain. In the background the main producers of the pollutants that acidify rain. Stamp part of a set of 2010 calling attention to the need to protect nature.

"The lady of the umbrella" on Uruguay (showing house of the Sants area) and Pilipines stamps issued for the Espamer'77 stamp exhibion of Barcelona.