Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Greenhill’s Lady as a Shepherdess
A Lady as a Shepherdess, John Greenhill On Google Art Project, also downloadable high-res from Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Though she is well presented, I don’t think Greenhhill has gone out of his way to flatter the sitter — or the sheep.
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Eye Candy for Today: Simon Vouet drawing
Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, Simon Vouet Black and white chalk on paper, 11×8″ (28x20cm). Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click Download for larger images. You have to create a (free) account to download the high-resolution images.
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Eye Candy for Today: Manet still life
Still Life with Melon and Peaches, Edouard Manet A summer table for you on Manet’s birthday. Manet is noted as a figurative painter, and his still life subjects, I think, often get less attention than they deserve. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. There is a good sized image on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest
Snowy Forest, Andreas Achenbach Watercolor, 16×24″ (42x62cm). A little reminder for those of us here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that snow can be beautiful. On Google Art Project. High res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt’s Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn OK, so the defecating dog was a source of some amusement back in art school, but once you get past that, this etching is just mind-bogglingly superb — a tour-de-force of drawing and the mediums of etching and drypoint. This was made after one of Rembrandt’s own paintings (though…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gruelle landscape
The Canal Morning Effect, Richard Bruckner Gruelle On Google Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.