Category: Eye Candy for Today

Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 58 x 36 inches (147 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. The Morgan Library’s collection centers on rare books and manuscripts and a fantastic collection of old master drawings, but it does…

Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol), by Lluís Masriera i Rosés; oil on canvas, roughly 35 x 51 in. (90 x 131 cm); Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Spanish painter Lluís Masriera, who was active in the late 19th snd early 20th centuries,…

Autumn Woods, Albert Bierstadt, Oil on linen, roughly 54 x 94 in. Link is to image page on Visual Elsewhere, large image here. Original is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. I had the pleasure of seeing thie painting in person a few yars ago in a show of Hudson River School paintings…

Waning Summer, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. ( 61 x 61 cm). Link is to Wikiart page. I don’t know the location of the original, I assume it’s in a provate collection. Metcalf, an American Impressionist who was particularly adept at scenes of fall colors, finds that sweet spot in late…

The Brook in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 in. (71 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whittredge was an American painter of the second generation Hudson RIver school active in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries. He was fascinated with scenes of…

The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction. The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as…