Fine Art

Carlos Schwabe, The Grave-Digger's Death, 1895-1900

Carlos Schwabe (1866 - 1929). The Grave Digger's Death, 1895 - 1900. Watercolor and gouache, 29½ in. x 21¾.
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Statue of Tirumala Nayaka
Postcrossing: India; 26 days; 8,051 miles
Postmarked: February 2025

Andrea Meldolla zw. Schiavone, "Madonna z dzieciątkiem i święci, ok. 1540

Andrea Meldolla zw. Shiavone, Madonna z dzieciątkiem i święci, ok. 1540
Postcrossing: Poland; 26 days; 4,465 miles
Postmarked: January - February 2025

Pacita Abad
L.A. Liberty, 1992
Acrylic, cotton yarn, plastic buttons, mirrors, gold thread, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Postcrossing: Canada; 16 days; 360 miles
Postmarked: January - February 2025

Childe Hassam, "Commonwealth Avenue, Boston," c. 1892

Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1935)
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, c. 1892
Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 76.8 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
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Postmarked: Raleigh, North Caronlina; December 2024

Claude Monet, "The Church at Varengeville, Morning Effect," 1882

Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)
The Church at Varengeville, Morning Effect, 1882
Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 74 cm
Private collection
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Postmarked: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; November 2024

Zhu Da
Postcrossing: China; 33 days; 7,439 miles
Postmarked: October - November 2024

Johann Baptist Homann, "Atlas Novus," c. 1728

Johann Baptist Homann (German, 1663 - 1724)
Atlas Novus, c. 1728. Title page
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Postmarked: Houston, Texas; October 2024

Musée Archéologique d'Arlon
Edicule of a funerary pillar from the 12th century.
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Postmarked: August - September 2024

Hieronymus Bosch, detail of Adoration of the Magi, 1485 - 1500

HIERONYMUS BOSCH (1450 - 1516)
detail of Adoration of the Magi (1485 - 1500)
Postcrossing: Germany; 22 days; 4,175 miles
Postmarked: August - September 2024

Pierre Bonnard, The Pont de Grenelle and the Eiffel Tower, ca. 1912

The Pont de Grenelle and the Eiffel Tower, ca. 1912
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 - 1947)
Oil on canvas, unframed, 21.5x27 inch
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
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Postmarked: Richmond, Virginia; August 2024

Postcard reads: chromolithographic pattern from La plante et ses applications ornementales (1896) by Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869 - 1942)
However, according to the Smithsonian Institution, La plante... was written by Eugéne Grasset. You can find the book here, and this postcard is featured on page 38.
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Postmarked: Oakland, California; October 2024

Vincent van Gogh, The Red Vineyard, 1888, 75x93cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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by David Borawski
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Uta of Naumburg
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Postmarked: August 2024

Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940
Postmarked: December

EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART
El Paso, Texas
"SIGN OF FRIENDSHIP"
by FREDERICK REMINGTON (1861 - 1909)
oil on canvas
From my grandmother: March 1994

Three Folk Musicians, 1967
Romare Bearden (American, 1911 - 1988)
Collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1 1/2in
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
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Postmarked: Richmond, Virginia; August 2024

Robert Doisneau, Le Baiser de l'Hotel de Ville (The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville), 1950
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Postmarked: Louisville, Kentucky; July 2024

Helen Allingham, A Garden in October, 1891
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EUGENE DELACROIX
Tiger und Schlange/Tiger and Serpent, 1854/1858
Postcrossing: Germany; 10 days; 3,955 miles
Postmarked: October 2022

I. K. Aivazovksy (1817 - 1900)
View of the Leander Tower in Constantiople. 1848
Postcrossing: Russia; 23 days; 4,866 miles
Postmarked: October 2022

Giorgio de Chirico. Italian, born Greece, 1888-1978.
Euripides. 1921. Pencil on paper., 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 ". The Museum of Modern art, New York, New York
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Postmarked: January 2021

Sandro Botticelli, detail of The Birth of Venus, 1485 - 1485
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Postmarked: January - February 2021

Vincent van Gogh, Vase of Roses, 1890, oil on canvas, 36 5/8 x 29 1/8 inc, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889, 95x73cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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Vincent van Gogh, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1886, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
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Postmarked: Santa Ana, CA; May 2019

Irises
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853 - 1890
oil on canvas, 29x36.25in, 1890
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Postmarked: September 2022

Henri Matisse, Portrait of L.N. Delekorskaya, 1947, 64x49cm, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Postmarked: Tampa, Florida - January 2024

Josef Max, Statue of John the Baptist, at the north side of the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czechia
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Claude Monet, Hotel des Roches Noires, 1870, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman in a Hat, 1895
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Postmarked: November 2023

Auguste Renoir, Monet Painting in His Argenteuil Garden, 1873, oil on canvas, 46x60cm, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Postcrossing: United States; 10 days; 399 miles
Postmarked: July - August 2020

Whistle in bird or fool shape, 16th century,
location: Erkelenz-Borschemich
Postcrossing: Germany; 10 days; 3,940 miles
Postmarked: May 2019

Stauette de Lare, Bronze (1er siecle)
Strasbourg, Musee archeologique
Postcrossing: France; 16 days; 4,011 miles
Postmarked: October 2021

WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
PETER BRUEGEL
The peasant wedding
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Postmarked: Houston, TX; May 2019

NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK
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Postmarked: Copenhagen, Denmark; 2019

LE MUSEE D'ORSAY
La grande horloge et deux sculptures
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Postmarked: Providence, RI; November 2023

Nude Self Portrait with Palette, 1908
Richard Gerstl, 1883 - 1908
oil on canvas, 139.3 x 100cm
Postcrossing: US; 28 days; 1,470 miles
Postmarked: November - December 2023

Emily Carr
The Red Cedar, 1931 - 1933
oil on canvas, 111x68.5cm
Vancouver Art Gallery
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Postmarked: Canada; February 2020

Mathias Neithart, The Crucifixion, 1510 - 1515
Postcrossing: Germany; 13 days; 4,031 miles
Postmarked: March 2021

Vincent van Gogh, Vincent's Chair with Pipe, 1888
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Postmarked: USA; 2022

MUSKETEER WITH PIPE (Pablo Picasso)
Original title: Mousquetaire a la pipe et fleurs
Date: 1968
Style: Native art (Primitivism)
Period: Later Years
Genre: genre painting
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Postmarked: Greensboro, North Carolina; September 2022

Adrien Vermont, True Representation of a Horse, 2014
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Pompeii Excacvations - House of the Vettii Family - Angels at the weaving loom
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Postmarked: July - October 2020

William Blake (British, 1757 - 1827)
Albions Angel Stood beside the Stone from America a Prophecy, 1793 - 1821
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Postmarked: June 2024

The Parthenon Sculptures
East Pediment
The Acroplis, Athens, Greece
438 - 432 BCE
The British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome

Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
The Loge, c. 1883
Oil on wood, 12.7x21.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Postmarked: July 2024

Mike Wilkins (born 1959)
Preamble, 1987
metal on vinyl and wood
Gift of Nissan Motor Corportation in U.S.A.
Smithsonian American Art Museum