Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt pen drawing of cottage and fence
Cottage with White Paling among Trees, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Drawing in quill and reed pen in brown ink with brown wash and touches of opaque white and gray wash; roughly 7 x 10 inches (17 x 25 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Image is zoomable on their page, you can also download…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince ink and wash drawing
Imaginary Landscape with Fishermen Pulling in Their Nets, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince Pen and black ink with gray wash, roughly 16 x 12 inches (40 x 29 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY; use the Download or Zoom links on their page. Though described as an imaginary landscape, both the landscape…
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Eye Candy for Today: Theodore Rousseau pen and wash drawing
Village and Church of Beurre, Franche-Comté, Théodore Rousseau Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and touches of green and red-brown watercolor, over graphite; roughly 7 x 10 inches (17 x 26 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version. 19th century landscape painter Théodore…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter pencil portrait
Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay, Franz Xaver Winterhalter Graphite, roughly 15 x 11 (40 x 29 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this deceptively simple, sensitively realized pencil portrait, 19th century German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter has given particular attention to nuances of value changes in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Strutt pencil drawing
Young Woman Holding a Book, William Strutt Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia, which also has an larger version on their site, though not as large as the other two. Pencil and watercolor on paper. The sheet is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt etching of farm scene with a man sketching
Cottages and Farm Building with a Man Sketching, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Etching, roughly 5 x 8 in. (13 x 21 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their site. Remarkable though they may be, Rembrandt’s etchings of Biblical scenes…