Paraguay 1977 Paintings - Airmail
Description
- Label : "Correo Paraguayo"; supplemental airmail stamps to the issue "Paintings";
(issue of 3 stamps and 1 Miniature sheet)
- Issue date : 25 July 1977
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 2947-2949 (Block ? (with No. 2950)); Yvert & Tellier: No. PA766-PA768; Scott: No. 1755f, 1755g, 1756
- Colours : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Printed by : "Litografia Nacional Ltda" (now SA), Oporto (Porto) (Portugal)
- Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 14
- Stamp size (printed area of a single stamp without signature line): 36.0 x 46.0 mm
Stamps
Mint
File:Paraguay 1977 Paintings - Airmail 1a1a.jpg 10 G Amour et Psyché, Zucchi Mi2947 |
File:Paraguay 1977 Paintings - Airmail 2a1a.jpg 15 G Vénus et Adonis, Prud'hon, Mi2948 |
File:Paraguay 1977 Paintings - Airmail 3a1a.jpg 20 G Boucher Mi2949 |
Postmarked with CTO (?)
Miniature sheet Block
File:Paraguay 1977 Paintings - Airmail 4a1a.jpg Block with Michel No. 2950, postmarked |
To the stamp motives:
- 10 Gs. (Guarani) : painting "Amor and Psyche" by Jacopo Zucchi (1541-1596); created in 1589 in the style of the Mannerism; contemporary located in the "Galleria Borghese", Rome (Italy)
- 15 Gs. (Guarani) : painting "Venus and Adonis" by Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823); created around 1800 in the style of the Classicism; contemporary located in the "Wallace Collection" (United Kingdom)
- 20 Gs. (Guarani) : lateral reversed reproduction of the painting "Diana after bathing" by François Boucher (1703-1779); created in 1742 in the style of the Roccoco; contemporary located in the "Musée du Louvre", Paris (France)
- 25 Gs. (Guarani, block) : painting "Odalisque with slave" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867); created in 1839 in the style of the French Orientalism as special variant of the Neoclassicism; original contemporary located in the "Musée du Louvre", Paris (France) (There exist several copies from this painting showed in different museums of the world.)
