Melchor Pérez de Holguín's 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt'

Bolivia · 1957 · 100 Bs

This airmail stamp features the painting 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt' by the renowned Bolivian Baroque artist Melchor Pérez de Holguín (c. 1660–1732). The design, part of the 'Pro-Infancia' (For Childhood) series, showcases the Holy Family in a tender moment, rendered in the distinctive style of the Potosí school of painting. The stamp was issued as a semi-postal to raise funds for child welfare.

Issued in the mid-20th century, this series celebrated Bolivia's rich colonial artistic heritage while simultaneously addressing contemporary social needs through the semi-postal surcharge for children's charities.