ROYAUME DU LAOS on 12 April 1951 issued a set of definitive stamps entitled "Laotian Woman" ("Femme Lao"). It was the first set of stamps for Laos designed by the French-Lao artist Marc Leguay. The engraver was Raoul Serres. The definitives in five different colours and values depicted Leguay's second wife, Nang Sengdeuane Soulivong (also known as Nang Sang Vane) who was from Khong Island. They married in 1946 and had eight children.
The same image of Nang Sang Vane appeared on two Laos currency (Kip) notes between 1962 till 1975.
Over the years his philatelic artwork would feature Nang Sengdeuane Soulivong and their children showing the Laotian countryside, musical instruments and dance, lifestyle as well as Buddhist practices.
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