Romfilatelia's latest postage stamp issue features paintings from National Art Museum in Iasi

Representatives of the Palace of Culture in Iasi announced on Friday that Romfilatelia is releasing a postage stamp issue titled European Art Gallery - Iasi, dedicated to universal fine art.

According to a press release, the images featured on the stamps are reproductions of paintings from the collection of the Iasi Art Museum, displayed in a specially curated space known as the European Art Gallery.

"The philatelic issue, consisting of four postage stamps, a perforated souvenir sheet, and two first day covers, will be made available to the public and collectors on Friday, August 1. The beginnings of the Art Museum in Iasi date back to 1846, when the 1848 revolutionary Scarlat Varnav donated twelve paintings purchased in the French capital to the Moldavian Art Gallery," the release notes.

On October 26, 2024, the European Art Gallery - a permanent exhibition comprising eighty works - was officially opened to the public at the headquarters of the Moldova National Museum Complex, as part of the Art Museum. The European art collection of the Iasi Art Museum has gradually expanded through donations, acquisitions, and transfers.

Across its five rooms, the European Art Gallery in Iasi offers visitors a chance to admire works of exceptional refinement.

"The postage stamps reproduce images of paintings by Eustache Le Sueur (stamp with a face value of 3 Lei), Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (5 Lei), Pietro Liberi (8 Lei), and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (25 Lei). The stamp featured on the perforated stamp sheet (face value of 30 Lei) reproduces Peter Paul Rubens' Caesar Receiving Pompey's Head. The two first day covers depict artworks from the European Art Gallery in Iasi belonging to the Austrian, German, Polish, and Russian Painting and Flemish and Dutch Painting sections, respectively," the press release specifies.