◧ Artist: Albert Anker (1831-1910)
◧ Country: Switzerland
◧ Title: [School Boy with Slate Board in a Snowy Landscape]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 82.4 × 54 cm (32.4" × 21.2")
◧ Painting Size: 82.4 × 54 cm (32.4" × 21.2")
◧ Museum: Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Switzerland
◧ Date of Issue: May 10, 2010
◧ Face Value: 85 Swiss Centime
◧ Issued to commemorate a centennial of Albert Anker's death.
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Albert Samuel Anker was a Swiss painter who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.
Here is another famous oil painting with a winter landscape by Albert Anker. [Girl in a Winter Landscape] in 1906.