Dutch Post issued stamps of paintings by Vincent van Gogh several times. Last year - 2015 - PostNL issued four stamp sheets containing ten stamps for national mail, themed:
- Landscapes
- Portraits
- Peasant Life
- City and Village.
Three of these were easy available in post agencies, the 'portraits' stamp sheet was sold out immediately. But fortunately we could order this one via the internet, be it that it only was available in a four stamp sheet folder.
I've used the portrait stamps already, but the front side of this folder is a matching one, too. It shows one of the portraits, namely Vincent van Gogh's postman, Joseph Roulin. Van Gogh has painted more than one portraits of Mr. Roulin. The version shown here you can see in real in the pretty Kröller-Müller Museum.
Besides the four national stamp sheets, PostNL issued also a folder containing four stamp sheets for international mail, containing five stamps each. These were available as a four-in-one-folder package and via the internet only, and fortunately I could order these.
The themes were:
- Flowers
- Self-portraits
- Still lifes
- Interiors
The first mentioned two stamp sheets I've sent to Eva, and the other two I just scanned to show you for today's Sunday Stamps:
the Still lifes:
And the Interiors:
See more interesting paintings on stamps at and via today's Sunday Stamps.
