Venice Lagoon at Dawn, Ivan Aivazovsky — Art Postcard

Aivazovsky returned to Venice repeatedly from the 1840s onward, and this card holds the city in his favourite register — pastel dawn light over the lagoon, a sailing boat at rest with furled sails, a gondola gliding past, and the Doge's Palace dissolving into haze.

It's a quiet, painterly piece of his Venetian work, printed at postcard scale so it can travel by post, sit in a collector's tray, or stand framed on a shelf.