Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Lawrence portrait
Elizabeth Farren, Sir Thomas Lawrence In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use fullscreen or download links under image. A beautiful portrait in “the grand manner”. I love the brushwork in the hair, fur and fabric.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape
Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough On Google Art Project. High-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art. There’s something about ink and wash drawings like this one that feel… complete, like a form of painting with all the visual charm of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frans Snyders’ grapes and game
Still Life with Grapes and Game, Frans Snyders In the National Gallery of Art, DC. According to the legend for this piece on the NGA website, still life featuring game and still life in which the primary subject was fruit were considered separate subjects until Snyders started combining them in the early 17th century. Snyders…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ King Cophetua
King Cophetura and the Beggar Maid, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, Britain. The Tate’s website has some background on the painting and the story it presents. There is more in an article on the painting on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout street scene
French Street with a Medieval Turret, Samuel Prout In the National Gallery of Art, DC. The National Gallery’s page says this was done in brush and watercolor, as apparently does the artist’s inscription, but I would have assumed an initial drawing in pen and brown ink. Though it exists in that fascinating boundary between drawing…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlos Reis Plus de Vin
Plus de Vin, Carlos Reis On Google Art Project; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation. In this loosely rendered and fascinatingly dark composition, it’s evident that the wine was more in demand than the fruit.