Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: William Trost Richards pencil landscape
Landscape, William Trost Richards Graphite on paper, roughly 9 x 6 inches (21 x 16 cm). In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. There is both a zoomable and downloadable version available from their site. This remarkable drawing from 1862 was likely a study for Richards’ 1863 painting, October. Both were done…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watteau trois crayon figure drawing
Seated Young Woman, Jean-Antoine Watteau Black, red and white chalk on buff paper. Roughly 10 x 7 inches (25 x 17 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Image can be zoomed or downloaded. French Baroque painter Jean-Antoine Watteau was a wonderful and prolific draftsman and master of the “trois crayon”…
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Eye Candy for Today: J.C. Schotel chalk drawing
Seated Woman Watching a Cradle, J. C. (Johannes Christianus) Schotel Black chalk on paper, roughly 11 x 10 inches (27 x 25 cm); original is in the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There is a soft delicate feeling in both the rendering and quality of light in this drawing by the 19th century Dutch artist,…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer pen drawing
Reclining Female Figure in an Italian Landscape, John Hamilton Mortimer Pen and black ink on cream paper; roughly 9 x 12 inches (22 x 32 cm). Link is to original in the Yale Center For British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions on the website. There is also a zoomable version on the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout cityscape
View of Bamberg, from the Ludwigskanal, Samuel Prout Pencil on paper, roughly 10×16 inches (26x40cm); original is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum in NY. Samuel Prout, a British artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was known for his watercolors and graphics of architectural scenes. Here, in a…