Category: Eye Candy for Today
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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.
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby ink and wash drawing
View in Windsor Park, Paul Sandby Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a graphite underdrawing. 13 3/16 x 20 1/4 in. (335 x 515 mm). In the Morgan Library & Museum. Click Zoom, then use Full Screen and zoom controls under image. Info at left.
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Eye Candy for Today: Irving Wiles’ Russian Tea
Russian Tea, Irving R. Wiles On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For more of his stunning work, along with information and links, see my post on Irving Ramsay Wiles.
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Wikimedia Commons. Zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Tate, London
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Eye Candy for Today: Gossaert’s Merchant
Portrait of a Merchant, Jan Gossaert On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Gossaert has surrounded his subject with items relevant to his profession. For more, see my post on Jan Gossaert.
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Eye Candy for Today: Bargue’s Bashi-Bazouk
A Bashi-Bazouk, Charles Bargue In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Jean-Léon Gérôme, his contemporary and collaborator in the well known drawing course that bears his name, Bargue’s paintings were often of Orientalist subjects. A Bashi-Bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman Army. Bargue has here rendered the objects with which he is surrounded…