Mirror Postcard Swap #1 <--- Vitebsk, Belarus

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This was my very first 'postcard swap', or direct exchange of postcards with Postcrossing members. I spotted this postcard, the paining by Frans van Mieris (Morning toilette of a young woman) sent by one of the Postcrossers from Belarus.  Later I found another 'mirror postcard', with a lesser known work by Rudolf Ernst (The Harem Bath - see behind the cut), and suggested to make an exchange. 

Back side of the card:





Funny, but the above postcard turned to be a very peculiar one. It was, in fact, a promo-card of a certain recreational complex with a sauna (!) called Eco-Village (!) in Kazakhstan (!!!) (see below its back side):

  


But all in all, this exchange worked wonderfully! My correspondent found more 'mirror cards' in her collection, and 
at the end I have received not only these two postcards, but eleven (11!) more.  Below are these other cards that I have received:


Artemisia Gentileschi - David and Bathsheba (c.1640)




Edouard Manet - Nana (c.1877)





Edouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (c.1882)





Vladimir Makovsky - Declaration of love (c. 1891)  





Three cards with the illustrations to Eugene Onegin , by Alexander Pushkin:

Pavel Sokolov - Eugene Onegin (c. 1882)





Elena Samokysh-Sudkovskaya - Eugene Onegin and Tatiana Larina (c.1911)




Elena Samokysh-Sudkovskaya - Eugene Onegin and Tatiana Larina at a Ball (c. 1882)





And four illustrations by Gennady Spirin to The Nose, by Nicolai Gogol 




















PS: This was an exchange of the blanc postcards, without stamps and messages. In return I have send a set of postcards with the works of French impressionists, mainly Renoir. 

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