Category: Eye Candy for Today
-
Eye Candy for Today: Cuyp’s Maas at Dordrecht
The Maas at Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Cuyp’s 1650 portrayal of the Maas River at his hometown of Dordrecht, during a historic gathering of a military force in 1646. See my post on Aelbert Cuyp.
-
Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough chalk study
Study of a Lady, Thomas Gainsborough In the Morgan Library and Museum. Image is also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. A beautifully economical and gestural chalk drawing by Gainsborough; in white and black chalk on colored, prepared paper.
-
Eye Candy for Today: Willem Kalf’s silver jug
Still Life with Silver Jug, Willem Kalf In the Rijksmuseum. Image also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Kalf just loved to trace the path of light across arrangements of complex objects, particularly those with intricate reflective surfaces. I love the reflected color of the lemon in the sculptural metal patterns of the…
-
Eye Candy for Today, Bernardino Luini portrait
Portrait of a Lady, Bernardino Luini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. A 16th century Italian lady in her finery, with her rather toothy fashion accessory.
-
Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Mother and Child in a Boat
Mother and Child in a Boat, Edmund Charles Tarbell On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I had the pleasure of seeing this in person as part of a show of Tarbell’s work that visited the Delaware Art Museum back in 2002, and…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Blechen’s Forest Path
Forest Path near Spandau, Carl Blechen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Blechen gives his forest scene a wonderfully theatrical character of light, without losing the naturalistic feeling of a forest interior after a rain.