Category: Drawing
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne
Portrait of Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Graphite pencil on paper, roughly 17×12 inches (43×29 cm). Original is in the Morgan Library and Museum. Here is another of Ingres’s wonderful pencil portraits, with his trademark combination of exacting portraiture, and loose, almost casual rendering of the figure. The Morgan Library’s page offers both a zoomable and…
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Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings
Though I had seen a few reproductions of his work in books, I first really took notice of German artist Adolph Menzel quite a few years ago, when I encountered some of his original drawings in shows of 19th century master drawings at the Morgan Library in New York and the National Gallery in D.C.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Girolamo Muziano landscape drawing
Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall, Girolamo Muziano Pen and brown ink, roughly 19×15″ (48x38cm). Link is to the Getty Museum, which has the original in their collection and both a zoomable and downloadable version on their site. The downloadable version can be gotten at high resolution and a 32MB file size. There is also a…