2544 - Moscow, Russia

A depressing look, but stunning card of a painting by Vasily Perov, "Apprentice Workmen Carrying Water" 1866. The title is misleading because it is obvious the "workmen" are children. In the card, the writer says Perov shows the "unenviable fare of children in the XIXth century. Children performed overwhelming work."

Vasily Perov (1834-1882) was a key figure in the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki. The Peredvizhniki were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions. Perov studies at the Alexander Stupin art school and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.

He won a state-sponsored trip in 1862 and travelled to western Europe, spending time in Germany and France, specifically Paris. He created many paintings of European street life.

In 1871 he was awarded a professorship at the Moscow School of Arts, Sculpture, and Architecture. It was around this time he joined the Peredvizhniki.

He died in 1882 of tuberculosis.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

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3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

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