Antique & Vintage Postcards

Seven plump, laughing putti break into an ecstatic ring-dance around a sun-dappled tree trunk in this charming color collotype of Francesco Albani's "Danza di Amorini" — a detail from the Baroque master's celebrated work held in Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera. Albani (1578–1660) was renowned for his tender mythological scenes suffused with soft Bolognese light, and this card captures that warmth beautifully in early chromolithographic reproduction. The card is multilingual on the reverse — "Cartolina postale / Postkarte / Carte postale / Dopisnice / Levelező-Lap / Briefkaart / Post card / Brefkort" — signaling its intended international distribution, printed by Fototipia Hans Hoesch, Milano, as card N. 24. Unused and unposted, it retains fresh, vivid color exceptional for its age, making it a delightful find for lovers of Italian Baroque art and early 20th-century fine-art postcards.