Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Johansen’s kitchen interior
Kitchen interior. The artist’s wife arranging flowers, Viggo Johansen On Google Art Project. High resolution downloadable version available on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Skagins Museum, Denmark. Sometimes the underappreciated genre of room interiors encompasses the best qualities of still life and figurative works.
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Eye Candy for Today: Holman-Hunt’s Isabella
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger of two versions painted by Holman-Hunt. The smaller one, which…
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Eye Candy for Today: David double portrait
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Jacques Louis David David’s portrait of the famous French chemist and his wife, Marie Lavoiser, née Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze, includes some of Antoine-Laurent Lavoiser’s experimental equipment. Marie Lavoiser was a student of David’s, and illustrated treatises on her husband’s experiments with extensive, detailed drawings of his scientific equipment.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou genre scene
Girl Chopping Onions, Gerrit Dou On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Royal Collection Trust, UK.
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard chalk drawing
Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful drawing by the 18th century French painter, and a wonderful example of the expressive possibilities for creating naturalistic portraits and figures in the “trois crayon” method of using three chalks — red, black…
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Eye Candy for Today: three Howard Pyle drawings
Today marks the birthday of the great American painter, illustrator and master of pen and ink, Howard Pyle. These three drawings, illustrations for one of Pyle’s own books, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has high-resolution images of them. I’ve provided the titles and links to the images on the…