Category: Drawing
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John Singer Sargent’s portrait drawings
John Singer Sargent, one of the best portrait painters of the 19th century, eventually tired of his role as a society portrait painter. In his later career he greatly reduced the number of formal portrait commissions he accepted, preferring to travel and pursue his own on location watercolors. However, he continued portraiture in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Théodore Chassériau pencil portrait
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Cloak and Bonnet, Théodore Chassériau In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; graphite on wove paper; approximately 18 x 15 in. (46 x 39 cm). Chassériau has given us a beautifully sensitive pencil portrait. The commentary on the museum’s website suggests that Chassériau shows more interest in the subject’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot pencil drawing
Young man in Front of a Great Oak, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Graphite on tan paper, highlighted with white gouache, roughly 11 x 16 inches (39 x 29 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Corot’s precise and economical…
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David Malan (update)
David Malan is a Utah based artist whose range os styles extends from elegant realist portraiture to delightfully exaggerated caricature. Malan was the subject of one of my earliest Lines and Colors posts, back in October of 2006. At the time, he was workign as a concept artist as well as an illustrator; whether that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Antoine Gros chalk portrait
Portrait of a Woman, Antoine Jean Gros In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Black chalk, 11 x 8 inches (28 x 19cm). I love the way the application of the chalk is alternately bold and delicate. For such a seemingly basic material, chalk can be astonishingly subtle. With the help of a stomp, Gros has…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Brown’s Cave of Dionysius
The Cave of Dionysius, Syracuse; John Brown In the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Use the zoom feature or download link. Pen and brown ink, approximately 18 x 11 inches (46 x 27 cm). A wonderful sense of light and texture is carried throughout the drawing. It’s a fascinating composition in which the subject, though…