July Night by Zhukovsky Postcard

I again got lucky with this postcard. I was able to find both the title of the painting on the postcard and a biography of the artist. The painting on the postcard is the work of S.Y. Zhukovsky and it is entitled "July Night." Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky was born in Yendrikhovtsy, Grodno province, in 1875. He became a celebrated painter associated with the Impressionist movement. He was dedicated to landscape painting. During World War II, he was arrested by the Nazis and sent to the Prushkov concentration camp, where he died in 1944.

July Night Postcard(PH Wish from Richard Young)

Additional Information:
1916
Oil on canvas
80.8 x 107.7
Penza Regional Art Gallery (K. Savitsky Picture Gallery) Penza, Russia

SOURCES:S.Y. Zhukovsky Wikipedia Entry
Penza Regional Art Gallery

In The South by Korovin Postcard

I got lucky this time with this postcard. I was able to find both the title of the painting on the postcard and a biography of the artist. The painting on the postcard is the work of K.A. Korovin and it is entitled "In The South." Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (November 23 [O.S. December 5] 1861, Moscow - September 11, 1939, Paris) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter.

In The South Postcard(PH Wish from Richard Young)

Additional Information:
1906
Oil on canvas
66.5 x 54.5
Penza Regional Art Gallery (K. Savitsky Picture Gallery) Penza, Russia

SOURCES:K.A. Korovin Wikipedia Entry
Penza Regional Art Gallery

Russian Painting Postcard 1

The back of the postcard gives the name of the artist and the title of the painting. However, I had hard time gathering information about the painting on the postcard since it's in Russian. I was, however, lucky that I was able to translate the name of the artist. I got that name of Vasili Evmenevich Savinsky, but I was not able to find a biography of the artist. The painting on the postcard is a actually a portrait, but couldn't find the title of the painting itself or the name of the lady.

I just hope that somebody can recognize the painting or have information on Savinsky.

Russian Painting Postcard 1(PH Wish from Richard Young)

Portrait of Rachel Donelson Jackson by Earl Postcard

The back of the postcard reads:

Portrait of Rachel Donelson Jackson- by EarlThe HermitageNashville, TennesseeHome of President Andrew JacksonSeventh President of the United States

The postcard shows a portrait of Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, wife to the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson. Rachel Donelson was the daughter of the explorer and adventurer John Donelson, co-founder of Nashville, Tennessee and Rachel Stockley.

Portrait of Rachel Donelson Jackson Postcard

Ralph E. W. Earl, portraitist, was the son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl and his second wife, Anne Whiteside of Norwich, England. On January 1, 1817, Earl arrived in Nashville to paint the portrait of General Andrew Jackson. Later that year, in Natchez, he met and married Jane Caffrey, Rachel Jackson's niece. She died the next year, but Earl moved into the Hermitage and into Jackson's circle.

SOURCES:The Hermitage
Rachel Jackson Wikipedia EntryRalph E. W. Earl TN Encyclopedia Entry

Portrait of Fritza Riedler by Klimt Postcard

The painting on the postcard is a portrait of Fritza Riedler by Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. Klimt's primary subject was the female body.

Fritza Riedler, wife of a machinery engineer, appear seating with a background of a model structure. This confusion effect of depth and emphasis of the picture is typical of Klimt. An interesting detail is the mosaic emblem, which is in the hairstyles in the paintings of Diego Velasquez. Gustav Klimt was an admirer of the Spanish painter of the 17th Century.

Portrait of Fritza Riedler Postcard

Additional Information:Portrait of Fritza Riedler (1860-1927), born Friederike Langer1906Oil on canvas152 x 134 cmÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere

SOURCES:Gustav Klimt Wikipedia Entry
Belvedere Gustav Klimt Collection